Human Nature Quotes - Page 6

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

personal intelligence is the way of ability to express oneself.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall men are angry, for they cannot pass easily through the door.

Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Things to know from books to read

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us of real joy and peace.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

I live in an ocean of smell…