Humans Quotes · Page 199

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

— Carl Sagan

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the…

— Frederick Lenz

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

— Anonymous

'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.

— Ilana Glazer

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

— Walter Rauschenbusch

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough…

— Markus Zusak

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that…

— Helen Hayes

Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a…

— Hilary McKay

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and…

— E. O. Wilson

The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics…

— Russell Kirk

The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not…

— Dalai Lama

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed…

— Anthony Trollope

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:…

— Jon Meacham

“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the…

— Amit Kalantri

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new…

— Anonymous

We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own…

— Deb Caletti

John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a…

— Emma Goldman

New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature…

— Victor Hugo

The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope…

— Jean Vanier

The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to…

— John Tooby

Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and…

— David Lodge

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

— William Wordsworth

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its…

— Hans Ree

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

— Daniel Gilbert

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope…

— Anonymous

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

— Volker Bertelmann

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human…

— Mindy Kaling

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

— Shanola Hampton

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

— Louise Colet

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

— Tacitus

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

— Gena Showalter

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

— Washington Irving

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

— Milan Kundera

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

— Malaclypse the Younger