Human Nature quotes
456 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside human nature — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising."
"I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature."
"Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life."
"War grows out of ordinary human nature."
"The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature."
"Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature."
"Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God."
"War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly."
"We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example."
"Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?"
"Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will."
"We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted."
"God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature."
"Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains."
"Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature."
"Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl."
"It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all."
"The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature"."
"Imitation is a necessity of human nature."
"I'm not sorry, it's human nature."
