Barbara Tuchman Quotes

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

The true science and study of man is man.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

We can't solve any problem without first solving the problem of human nature

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.