Top 180 Human Nature Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

52. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

— Anne Frank

53. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”

— Brené Brown

54. “Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.”

— Chanakya

55. “It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

56. “What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.”

— Omar Suleiman

57. “Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

— C. S. Lewis

58. “The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

— Khalil Gibran

59. “I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.”

— Roald Dahl

60. “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

61. “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”

— Mark Twain

62. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”

— Sigmund Freud

63. “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”

— Haruki Murakami

64. “Smile if you want a smile from another face.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

65. “A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.”

— Leo Buscaglia

66. “Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?”

— Marcus Aurelius

67. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

— Rumi

68. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”

— John Donne

69. “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

— A. A. Milne

70. “I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

71. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

— Randy Pausch

72. “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

— William James

73. “What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

74. “Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”

— Sharon Creech

75. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

— Isabel Allende

76. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

— Ben Okri

77. “There is only one race, the human race.”

— Robert Sobukwe

78. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

— Erich Fromm

79. “Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

— Thomas Hobbes

80. “You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

81. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

82. “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

— William Shakespeare

83. “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

— Samuel Ullman

84. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

85. “Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

86. “The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!”

— Charlie Chaplin

87. “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

88. “Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

89. “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

— Charles Dickens

90. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

— Dale Carnegie

91. “To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

— Thomas Merton

92. “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

— James Allen

93. “One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.”

— Dale Carnegie

94. “The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.”

— Desmond Tutu

95. “More than machinery, we need humanity.”

— Charlie Chaplin

96. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.”

— Stephen R. Covey

97. “What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.”

— Ravi Zacharias

98. “There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

— Leo Tolstoy

99. “People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

— Paulo Coelho

100. “People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky