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Quotes about Human Nature
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!. Emma Goldman The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Oscar Wilde It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. Francis Bacon Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. Abraham Lincoln The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. A A Milne It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature. William Feather Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry Brooks Adams Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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