“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn’t annihilate human nature.” — Philip Roth, American Pastoral
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“The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
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“Herbert don’t know all about human nature, or he wouldn’t try to appeal to the average man. No man wants to admit that he is average.” — Will Rogers, “Will Rogers Declares Hoover Speech Surprised Him,” Daily Telegram #638 (1928-08-12)
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“It’s a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.” — Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.” — Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
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“It is hardly in human nature that a man should quite accurately gauge the limits of his own insight; but it is the duty of those who profit by his work to consider carefully where he may have been carried beyond it.” — William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
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“There are no exceptions to human nature.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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“Modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, February 7, 1749
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“The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James, The Letters of William James, Vol. II
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
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