637 quotes found
“Its human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.”
“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.”
“Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friend...”
“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider th...”
“Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.”
“The most painful emotions are better than none at all. Ironically, we make you human.”
“That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people c...”
“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.”
“Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the...”
“The problem is that we are humans.”
“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other li...”
“Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.”
“...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.”
“What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply human nature. All the worlds nations, therefore, have a g...”
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that ...”
“john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that”
“Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.”
“the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub...”
“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.”
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history...”
