Human Nature Quotes

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Human Nature Quotes

Hand-picked human nature quotes chosen for depth and honesty. Use them for daily motivation, quiet reflection, or to share with someone who needs them.

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"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer you approach to this certainty. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer you approach to this certainty. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Defense is of much more importance than opulence. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Defense is of much more importance than opulence. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. An observation that echoes through modern markets."

-- Adam Smith

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

-- Plato

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

-- Plato

"There is truth in wine and children."

-- Plato

"There is truth in wine and children."

-- Plato

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

-- Plato

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

-- Plato

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

-- Plato

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

-- Plato

"Love is a serious mental disease."

-- Plato

"Love is a serious mental disease."

-- Plato

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

-- Plato

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

-- Plato

"Tempt not a desperate man."

-- William Shakespeare

"Tempt not a desperate man."

-- William Shakespeare

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

-- William Shakespeare

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

-- William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

-- William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

-- William Shakespeare

"Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."

-- Albert Einstein

"Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."

-- Albert Einstein

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Hand-picked human nature quotes chosen for depth and honesty. Use them for daily motivation, quiet reflection, or to share with someone who needs them.

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Popular human nature quotes include: "Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions." -- Albert Einstein Also: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." -- William Shakespeare.

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