It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. – Peter Lynch
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. – Noam Chomsky
If you can’t sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story? – Evangeline Lilly
I’m interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. – Guy Pearce
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud’s complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature. – Nathaniel Branden
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that’s a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. – Natalie Dormer
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. – Elizabeth Banks
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. – George Mason
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. – Elie Metchnikoff
It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible. – David Boies
Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves. – David Blunkett
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature. – Noam Chomsky
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. – Matthew Simpson
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. – Edward Hall
All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement. – Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey
There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. – David Millar
I think it’s in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you. – Pico Iyer
It’s human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn’t make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you’re doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story. – N. K. Jemisin
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. – Eric Hoffer
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. – Edgar Ramirez
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you’re wonderful every time you do something; I think that’s human nature. – David Duchovny
‘A Long Way Gone’ says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore. – Carolyn See
A theme I’m obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it. – Douglas Brunt
Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I’m no different. It’s just human nature. – Michelle Pfeiffer