Pastoral Resources

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Envy is human nature.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.