Quotes and sayings about tag  human-nature

22 Quotes

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Erol Ozan

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Aberjhani

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Irvin D. Yalom

Friends are the family you choose.

Jess C. Scott

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

George Carlin

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

George Eliot

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R.R. Martin

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

H.G. Wells

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honoré de Balzac

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Joss Whedon

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Joss Whedon

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