Humans Quotes · Page 437

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”

— Jodi Picoult

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

— Madi Diaz

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

— Stanley Unwin

“the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built…

— John Green

I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

— Eddie Izzard

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

— Edmond de Goncourt

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

— Gilbert Gottfried

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized…

— Edward T. Hall

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will…

— Tony Robbins

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

— E. F. Schumacher

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and…

— Saul Bellow

The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise…

— Jack Kornfield

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension…

— Henry Reed

If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years…

— Donald A. Norman

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about…

— Jan Burke

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping…

— Louisa May Alcott

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be…

— Richard Ford

I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is…

— Konrad Lorenz

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply…

— Lawrence Durrell

How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has…

— Alexandra Adornetto

“Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity.”

— Amit Kalantri

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

— Max Brooks

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a…

— James McBride

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

— Anonymous

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

— Herbie Hancock

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be…

— Elizabeth Strout

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

— Jim Costa

To watch people push themselves further than they think they can, it's a beautiful thing. It's really human.

— Abby Wambach

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

— Theophile Gautier

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

— Mairead Corrigan

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

— James Hillman

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human…

— Dalai Lama

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans…

— Zygmunt Bauman

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

— Richard Wagner