Charles Spurgeon Quotes

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

People usually tend to believe grim words rather than positive ones.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

You know, people are basically shitty

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

People are bloody ignorant apes.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

It is best to know the worst at once.

Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.