REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling. — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're… — Seal Copy Share Image
When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to… — Prince Copy Share Image
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of… — John Searle Copy Share Image
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the… — Anne McLellan Copy Share Image
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
“With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image