One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. - Harry Browne
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. - Abraham Lincoln
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. - Isaac Asimov
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. - Will Durant
We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior. - Jane Goodall
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