Quotes About Human Nature

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Plato

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

Philip Pullman

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

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.

Jane Austen

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Philip Pullman

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

George Marshall

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

The evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Terry Pratchett

Humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.

J. K. Rowling