Human Nature Quotes

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

I always compare marriage to communism. They’re both institutions that don’t conform to human nature, so you’re going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Our minds are so quick to make assumptions and judgements.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

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

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.