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One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way. -- Alison Gopnik
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. -- Al Gore
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. -- Brian Weiss
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. -- Ai Weiwei
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. -- Alfred Adler
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. -- Tony Campolo
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality. -- Mary Matalin
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior. -- Herbert A. Simon
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that. -- Lajos Egri
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason. -- Leon Bourgeois
The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature. -- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. -- Juliette Lewis
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. -- Fran Lebowitz
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. -- Carl Jung
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. -- Frank Luntz
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. -- Francis Bacon
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. -- Francis Bacon
Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility. -- Ian Barbour
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. -- Francis Bacon
The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. -- James Alison
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature. -- Swami Vivekananda

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