Human nature Quotes

"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them" "A man is the sum of his misfortunes." "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 blooming outside our windows today" "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction " "The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come" "Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge" "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" "The truth however ugly in itself is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it" "A human being is a deciding being" "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills" "We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire enough knowledge of the crudities of life" "All cruelty springs from weakness " "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted" "The imagination is not a state it is the human existence itself" "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"