Quotations about

Human nature

It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important.

—Linda Marie Fedigan

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

—Steven Pinker

Men copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

—Richard Wright

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

—Henry Ward Beecher