Human Nature Quotes

All involve risk, uncertainty, and complexity — and therefore steps that are worth committing to a checklist and testing in routine care. Good checklists could become as important as doctors and nurses as good stethoscopes (which, unlike checklist, have never been proved to make a difference in patient care). The hard question — still unanswered — is whether medical culture can seize the opportunity.

~ Atul Gawande

We are all plagued by failures - by missed subtleties, overlooked knowledge, and outright errors. For the most part, we have imagined that little can be done beyond working harder and harder to catch the problems clean up after them. We are not in the habit of thinking the way the army pilots did as they looked upon their shiny new Model 299 bomber — a machine so complex no one was sure human beings could try it.

~ Atul Gawande

Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.

~ Atul Gawande

The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

~ Rafael Sabatini

How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean. Charlie to Beth

~ Lynsay Sands

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

~ Brandon Sanderson

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.

~ Machado De Assis

When you are in a dark place, you tend to sit back and wait for the light to come. But it won't: because, you are the only one who can find your inner light.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves.

~ Paulo Coelho

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

~ Abhijit Naskar

People are simple. People are complicated.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

~ Paulo Coelho

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

~ Ron Chernow

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. “It’ll kill me, doctor! I’ll die of shame!” I made no attempt to dissuade her. I didn’t know what to do. We could see the father pacing back and forth in the little dining room next door. Apparently he hadn’t finished composing his attitude for the occasion. Maybe he was waiting for things to come to a head before selecting a posture. He was in a kind of limbo. People live from one play to the next. In between, before the curtain goes up, they don’t quite know what the plot will be or what part will be right for them, they stand there at a loss, waiting to see what will happen, their instincts folded up like an umbrella, squirming, incoherent, reduced to themselves, that is, to nothing. Cows without a train.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.

~ Wade Davis

You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.

~ Wade Davis

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

~ Blaise Pascal

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

~ Nadja Sam

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

~ Joe Hill

Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.

~ José Eduardo Agualusa

Maybe he’ll be different from who he was and always is.

~ Stephen Colbert

To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.

~ Becky Chambers

It's been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn't made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain?

~ Abhijit Naskar

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

~ Howard Pyle

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

~ Marjorie Spiegel

Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself.

~ Agatha Christie

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

~ Fyodor Stepun

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order.

~ Emmie Lee Dean

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Everyone’s got a little devil inside them, I’ve just learned to control mine that’s why you’ve not seen it yet; I advise you to keep yours under control before it ruins you.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

~ Agatha Christie

Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Don't ever think you're alone here,We've just been trapped in different hells,And people aren't against you dear,They're just all for themselves.

~ Erin Hanson

Perhaps the most striking aspect of this entire subject is that there are nonhuman primates so close to the edge of language, so willing to learn, so entirely competent in its use and inventive in its application once the language is taught. But this raises a curious question: Why are they all on the edge? Why are there no nonhuman primates with an existing complex gestural language? One possible answer, it seems to me, is that humans have systematically exterminated those other primates who displayed signs of intelligence.

~ Carl Sagan

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

~ Agatha Christie