“Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.”
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Human Nature Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.”
“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Source: The castle of Otranto
“True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.”
“The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.”
Source: The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes
Source: Poems formerly published, with some additions,and a history of these poems, by Gilbert Burns
“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”
Source: Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life
Source: The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author
“The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.”
Source: Woody Allen: Interviews
Source: Time Enough for Love
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.”
“By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.”
“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.”
Source: Essential works
“Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all”
Source: Separate Reality
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
Source: Nature
Source: The Division of Labor in Society
“The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.”
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Source: The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men