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Human-nature Quotes

"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"

"Where one man hates and another loves, there is truth."

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure"

"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

"The urge to ascend in control, the drive to survive, is rooted deep in our evolutionary past."

"The greatest flaw of humankind is our inability to control our desires."

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."

"Men measure, not only other men, but all other things, by themselves."

"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy"

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people"

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"

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