#human nature

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. ↗

— Margot Kidder

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

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To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. ↗

— Earl Warren

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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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