Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the… — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If an alien visitor were to hover a few hundred yards above the planet, it could be forgiven for thinking that cars… — Heathcote Williams Copy Share Image
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image