The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history?…

— Terence McKenna

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is…

— Elliot Perlman

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

— Frank Moore Cross

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely…

— Anonymous

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for…

— J. William Fulbright

“Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.”

— Karen Armstrong

“Not long ago, I read an interview with the war correspondent Chris Hedges in which he used a phrase that seemed like a perfect…

— Pema Chödrön

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

— Charles Mengel Allen

“If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to a halt because we would be spending…

— Ha-Joon Chang

A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Why, godamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them—all human motives?”

— Ralph Ellison

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up…

— Charles W. Chesnutt

“She was one who wished to believe the human motives precede actions for she was (she had always been) a rational individual yet clearly…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make…

— Ernest Becker

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

— Isaac Asimov