I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they…

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

— Bill Nye

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.”

— Winston Damarillo

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

— Jodi Picoult

It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute…

— Edward O. Wilson

Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that…

— Matt Bomer

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

— Sarah Paulson

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

— Elie Wiesel

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it's what makes you a human.

— Emma Watson

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

— Tom Hiddleston

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

— Anonymous

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

— Jane Goodall

“Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.”

— Terry Pratchett