Quotations: Human Nature

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to really test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Linclon
A good scare is worth more than good advice. - E.W. Howe
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. - William James
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. - Men in Black (movie)
Millions long for immortaility but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base. - Dave Barry
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. - Diane Sawyer
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. - Don Marquis
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that one shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile. - Arnold Toynbee
It has been my experience that folks with no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. - Arnold H. Glasow
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
A small town is a place where everyone knows whose check is good and whose husband is not. - Sid Ascher
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves. - Carl Jung
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. - Jane Austen
Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success. - William Feather
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. - E.B. White
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. - Oscar Wilde
How many fancy they have experience, simply because they have grown old. - Stanislaus Lac
Virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. - Booth Tarkington
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow