The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what…

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human…

— Mark Doty

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct,…

— Tony Vigorito

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

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

— Bill Nye