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Human nature Quotes

"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."
Alain de Botton
"Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for."
Alain de Botton
"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
Ezra Pound
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends"
Benjamin Franklin
"There is no language without deceit"
Italo Calvino
"Inside every man there are two wolves battling"
Italo Calvino
"My friend, my friend, I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it."
Anne Sexton
"I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the least. It's so boring to be perfect."
Madonna
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
Bertrand Russell
"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late"
Thomas Sowell
"I guess the truth is that people are good at heart until something breaks them and then they aren’t"
John Steinbeck
"He that is angry at a fault will hate a man who has none"
Samuel Johnson
"Fear is such a strong passion that it compels all other natural affections and by consequence all resolutions"
Thomas Aquinas
"People are bloody ignorant apes."
Samuel Beckett
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