Humans Quotes · Page 411

So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave…

— Charlaine Harris

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

— Jonathan Kellerman

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human…

— Sherry Turkle

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has…

— Jennifer Egan

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

— William Sloane Coffin

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

— Amartya Sen

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience…

— Chaim Potok

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into…

— John Trudell

I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow…

— Emma Green Tregaro

“There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of…

— Saint Augustine

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a…

— Charles Baudelaire

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings…

— Tod Machover

We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we…

— Michael Gungor

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow…

— Chris Wyse

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion…

— Octavio Paz

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's…

— Rita Mae Brown

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out…

— Gary Hamel

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…

— Horace Mann

Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the…

— Paul Goodman

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the…

— Isaac Asimov

Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have…

— Anonymous

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

— Irenaeus of Lyons

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

— Harold S. Kushner

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

— Swami Vivekananda

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to…

— George Eliot

Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

— Abraham Lincoln

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one…

— Chester Himes

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

— Martin Seligman

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

— Francois Rabelais

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its…

— Benazir Bhutto

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.”

— Amit Kalantri

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel