Human Nature Quotes

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."

"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity."

"Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex."

"People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews."

"Gods always behave like the people who make them."

"People can be slave-ships in shoes."

"Everyone romanticizes somebody."

"Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic."

"It's human nature to want to be with other people."

"Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive."

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

François de La Rochefoucauld

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"Many, though tested well, still change in the course of action."

Thiruvalluvar

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."

George Berkeley

"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have."

Elizabeth Bowen

"They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing."

Tim O'Brien

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war."

Homer

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Warfare is just an invention – not a biological necessity."

Margaret Mead

"The root of war is fear."

Thomas Merton

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

William James

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

François de La Rochefoucauld

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive."

Stephen Hawking

"Man is by nature a social animal."

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

Margaret Mead