Human Nature is the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioural traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans.

1. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France

2. It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus

3. The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
Barrows Dunham

4. The human nature reveals the essence of the person.
Benedictus de Spinoza

5. Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Roo

6. I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
Ellen Glasgow

7. Mankind is composed of two sorts of men those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
Jose Marti

8. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato

9. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

10. Law is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

11. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less
Plato

12. You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back
William D. Tammeus

13. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this as philosophy, to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged
Abraham Lincoln

14. Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson

15. It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
Frank B. Kellogg

16. Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello

17. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don’t enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That’s why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.
Roger Ebert

18. He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
Saint Augustine

19. Do not become discouraged by the discovery that you are human. Human nature may tend toward evil, but it is not inherently sinful
Anonymous

20. It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. Maria Montessori

21. The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive
Anonymous

22. It is a strange characteristic of human nature that when WE authentically reveal OUR true colors, the true colors of OTHERS will astonishingly be revealed.
Randi G Fine

23. I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
Christopher Meloni

24. 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

25. Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people’s emotional nature.
Xun Zi

26. There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Elihu Root

27. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
Aristotle

28. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi

29. Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
Mencius

30. No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
Thomas Hobbes

31. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare

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32. I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine

33. Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason Cooley

34. There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Charles Kingsley

35. A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized
Noam Chomsky

36. It’s human nature to react in horror, anger, and despair to traumatic events. It’s your divine nature to respond in peace, calm and Love. Own them both and then choose which one you will empower
Julia Rogers Hamrick

37. Atrocities are human nature – they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Clancy Brown

38. If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing
Taylor Swift

39. A human is clean and elegant animal by its nature.
Seneca

40. It's our nature Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top

41. If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.
Albert Einstein

42. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato

43. Human nature is never revealed so clearly as when he tries to describe the nature of other person.
Jean Paul

44. Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. Robinson Jeffers

45. What we call human nature in actuality is human habit
Anonymous

46. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Henry James

47. Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xunzi

48. Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

49. Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hum

50. Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
Abraham Lincoln

51. We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Rutherford B. Hayes

53. The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them
Michael Caine

54. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France

55. Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. Edward Hall

56. Human Beings Are Great In Their Own Eyes, But Are Not Much In The Eyes Of Nature.
Kensho Furuya

57. Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Wallace Stevens

58. Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature
Anonymous

59. Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Zi

60. You shouldn’t have to apologize for what it is you’re feeling. You’re human and you are allowed to feel.
Anonymous

61. The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this
Anonymous

62. The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer