Universal Traits Quotes

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.

In every man there is something of all men.

What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief systems were so different. They had different metaphysical truths than we do. And yet we're the same.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

There are universal traits and aspects of all these conflicts, and I think that all of them have bridgeable solutions. The only question is whether you are ready to take the challenge, to pay the price, to compromise in order to get more. This, I believe, is the challenge for all the peacemakers in the world.

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.

But we Americans are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.