#human nature

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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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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But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat. ↗

— David Millar

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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. ↗

— Thomas Day

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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. ↗

— Graham Greene

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It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. ↗

— Peter Lynch

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Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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