Human Nature Quotes

"People do not like you to be different. If ever in your life you act differently from others, you will find it so, mademoiselle." ~ Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Are there, infinitely varying with each individual, inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us, deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression -- hidden Good and hidden Evil, both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation?" ~ No Name by Wilkie Collins "There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans. I have a theory that the individual represents in his development the whole procession of his ancestors, and that such a sudden turn to good or evil stands for some strong influence which came into the line of his pedigree. The person becomes, as it were, the epitome of the history of his own family." ~ The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!" ~ The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. ~ Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky He was frightened by the effect he had produced, and like most men with but little courage, he sought at once to justify himself by bullying. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ~ The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith To say the truth, every physician almost hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding