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Top 20 topics
containing "human":
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| | Joseph Addison |  | Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. |
| | Mortimer J. Adler | | The need for love is one of the deepest needs in human nature, because we are by nature social. But we are social persons, not social animals. Hence we cannot be satisfied, as the gregarious animals are, simply by herding together, simply by being useful to another, or simply by the pleasures of bodily contact. |
| | Jane Austen | | Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. |
| | Irving Babbitt | | In his appearance and behavior, the neo-classicist would be true to the general traits of human nature, and is even careful to avoid technical and professional terms in his writing and conversation. |
| | Walter Bagehot | | One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. |
| | Walter Bagehot | | The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. |
| | William Bernbach | | It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. |
| | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | | No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. |
| | Benjamin Banneker | | It is the indispensible duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under. |
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