35 Best Human Nature Quotes

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Pride is a very common failing... I am convinced that it is very common indeed.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Matthew 26:41

I’ve never found it hard to hack most people. If you listen to them, watch them, their vulnerabilities are like a neon sign screwed into their heads. – Elliot

I’m very good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them. – Whiterose

People's hearts are easily swayed. That's why they need something to believe in. – Kariya Kagetoki

People grow when they are confronted with something they cannot overcome. – Makishima Shogo

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! – Rodion Raskolnikov

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. – Rodion Raskolnikov

Reason is the slave of passion. – Narrator

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. – Ishmael

Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil. – Dorian Gray

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. – Dmitri Karamazov

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. – Ivan Karamazov

People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. – Ivan Karamazov

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us. – Simon

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. – Narrator

I'm frightened. Of us. – Ralph

You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are? – The Lord of the Flies

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! – The Lord of the Flies

There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast. . . . Poor thing. You thought you could hunt me. You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? – The Lord of the Flies

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad (often used by the team)

I can resist everything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological height. – Abraham Maslow

The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. – Abraham Maslow

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin

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

Some men just want to watch the world burn. – Christopher Nolan

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. – Christopher Nolan

I think people are perverts. I've maintained that. That's the foundation of my career. – David Fincher