1. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.-Anatole France
2. Human nature is not of itself vicious.-Thomas Paine
3. There is a great deal of human nature in people.-Mark Twain
4. Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.-Steven Pinker
5. It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.-Frank B. Kellogg
6. It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. It’s human nature to want to be with other people.-Zoe Lister-Jones
8. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.-Margaret Mead
9. 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
10. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.-William James
11. Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.-John Keats
12. You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.-William Lyon Phelps
13. We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
14. Human nature is the same in all professions.-Laurence Sterne
15. Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.-Abraham Harold Maslow
16. Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.-Hebbel
17. You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.-Charles H. Spurgeon
18. Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.-Abraham Lincoln
19. Human nature is water, not stone.-Marty Rubin
20. Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.-Kirk Chisholm
21. Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.-Terence
22. Human nature is compassionate, is affectionate.-Tenzin Gyatso
23. The more we study human nature, the less we think of men – the more of man.-Theodore Tilton
24. There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.-Ralph J. Bunche
25. 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
26. Human nature is above all things lazy.-Harriet Beecher Stowe
27. 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
28. Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.-Bertrand Russell
29. Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.-Xun Zi