--- title: "25 Human Energy Quotes by 20 authors" description: "Browse 25 Human Energy quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Human Energy sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/swami-vivekananda-53_astrology_no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-ener_2648969.jpg" --- > [No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-energy-whether-in-times-past-or/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/swami-vivekananda-53_astrology_no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-ener_2648969.jpg) > [No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-j-clinton/no-problem-of-human-making-is-too-great-to-be-overcome-by-human/) [William J. Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-j-clinton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88c/william-j-clinton-302_energy_no-problem-of-human-making-is-too-great_2604781.jpg) > [So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solutions-of-the-great-problem-of/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23b/nikola-tesla-1383_energy_so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solut_1367067.jpg) > [“The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energy-working-productively-can/) [Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/rose-wilder-lane-11326_human-life_the-fact-is-that-nothing-but-human-energ_1746773.jpg) > [Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-h-schuller/tremendous-human-energy-is-needed-to-walk-god-s-walk-work-god-s-work/) [Robert H. Schuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-h-schuller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b0/robert-h-schuller-2371_dream_tremendous-human-energy-is-needed-to-wal_539810.jpg) > [It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-chopin/it-is-greater-than-the-stars-that-moving-procession-of-human-energy/) [Kate Chopin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-chopin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/kate-chopin-2624_astronomy_it-is-greater-than-the-stars-that-moving_174703.jpg) > [Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-shanahan/limits-are-self-imposed-but-there-are-no-limits-to-human-energy-nor/) [Mike Shanahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-shanahan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52e/mike-shanahan-47311_achieve_limits-are-self-imposed-but-there-are-no_2145407.jpg) > [“All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-chercover/all-that-human-energy-wasted-in-response-to-the-simple-fact-that-we/) [Sean Chercover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-chercover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/sean-chercover-15822_life_all-that-human-energy-wasted-in-response_1054795.jpg) > [We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-don-t-know-how-to-use-energy-or-what-to-use-it-for-and-we-cannot/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/wendell-berry-236_abuse_we-don-t-know-how-to-use-energy-or-what_1835311.jpg) > [Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/everything-on-this-earth-can-be-made-into-something-better-every/) [Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bb/adolf-hitler-253_causes_everything-on-this-earth-can-be-made-int_1786362.jpg) > [Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-mccloud/every-decently-made-object-from-a-house-to-a-lamp-post-to-a-bridge/) [Kevin McCloud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-mccloud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/kevin-mccloud-11846_ability_every-decently-made-object-from-a-house_1585894.jpg) > [The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-read/the-more-complex-our-economy-the-more-we-should-rely-on-the/) [Leonard Read](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-read/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/leonard-read-14543_acting_the-more-complex-our-economy-the-more-we_1379430.jpg) > [A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-federation-of-all-humanity-together-with-a-sufficient-measure-of/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d29/h-g-wells-1122_born_a-federation-of-all-humanity-together-wi_914989.png) > [The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-horton-cooley/the-general-fact-is-that-the-most-effective-way-of-utilizing-human/) [Charles Horton Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-horton-cooley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/charles-horton-cooley-8362_control_the-general-fact-is-that-the-most-effect_2581748.png) > [So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solutions-of-the-great-problem-of-3/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/nikola-tesla-1383_classroom_so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solut_2123958.jpg) > [Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-wesley-dow/art-is-the-most-valued-thing-in-the-world-it-is-the-expression-of-the/) [Arthur Wesley Dow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-wesley-dow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/arthur-wesley-dow-78824_art_art-is-the-most-valued-thing-in-the-worl_1915473.jpg) > [The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-flavin/the-sunlight-that-strikes-earth-s-land-surface-in-two-hours-is/) [Christopher Flavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-flavin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/christopher-flavin-37976_biomass_the-sunlight-that-strikes-earth-s-land-s_423715.jpg) > [Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-galsworthy/art-is-the-one-form-of-human-energy-in-the-whole-world-which-really/) [John Galsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-galsworthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa7/john-galsworthy-4232_art_art-is-the-one-form-of-human-energy-in-t_1865779.png) > [This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/this-curious-faith-is-predicated-on-the-notion-that-we-will-soon/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/wendell-berry-236_abuse_this-curious-faith-is-predicated-on-the_1091963.jpg) > [Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/crime-is-naught-but-misdirected-energy-so-long-as-every-institution/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/emma-goldman-774_crime_crime-is-naught-but-misdirected-energy-s_3214426.jpg) > [“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/one-possibility-is-just-to-tag-along-with-the-fantasists-in/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/wendell-berry-236_culture_one-possibility-is-just-to-tag-along-wit_425518.jpg) > [“On the daytime side of Earth, the solar radiation hitting the top fo the atmosphere deposits around 1,300 watts of power per…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caleb-scharf/on-the-daytime-side-of-earth-the-solar-radiation-hitting-the-top-fo/) [Caleb Scharf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caleb-scharf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/caleb-scharf-17792_energy-consumption_on-the-daytime-side-of-earth-the-solar-r_1836806.jpg) > [“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solutions-of-the-great-problem-of-2/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/nikola-tesla-1383_christian-religion_so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solut_1407422.jpg) > [The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-horton-cooley/the-most-effective-way-of-utilizing-human-energy-is-through-an/) [Charles Horton Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-horton-cooley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1e/charles-horton-cooley-8362_energy_the-most-effective-way-of-utilizing-huma_1394616.png) > [“Based on a survey of approximately five hundred people, the research demonstrated that about 80 percent of the average person′s communications are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-campbell-ph-d/based-on-a-survey-of-approximately-five-hundred-people-the-research/) [Susan Campbell Ph.D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-campbell-ph-d/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/768/susan-campbell-ph-d-280569_average-person_based-on-a-survey-of-approximately-five_522412.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-energy/#itemlist", "name": "Human Energy Quotes", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-energy-whether-in-times-past-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/swami-vivekananda-53_astrology_no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-ener_2648969.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/swami-vivekananda-53_astrology_no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-ener_2648969.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91a/swami-vivekananda-53_astrology_no-study-has-taken-so-much-of-human-ener_2648969.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of…” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William J. 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While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Flavin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-flavin/the-sunlight-that-strikes-earth-s-land-surface-in-two-hours-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/christopher-flavin-37976_biomass_the-sunlight-that-strikes-earth-s-land-s_423715.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/christopher-flavin-37976_biomass_the-sunlight-that-strikes-earth-s-land-s_423715.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/christopher-flavin-37976_biomass_the-sunlight-that-strikes-earth-s-land-s_423715.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a…” — Christopher Flavin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. 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This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wendell Berry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/this-curious-faith-is-predicated-on-the-notion-that-we-will-soon/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/wendell-berry-236_abuse_this-curious-faith-is-predicated-on-the_1091963.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/wendell-berry-236_abuse_this-curious-faith-is-predicated-on-the_1091963.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/wendell-berry-236_abuse_this-curious-faith-is-predicated-on-the_1091963.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy…” — Wendell Berry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Emma Goldman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/crime-is-naught-but-misdirected-energy-so-long-as-every-institution/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/emma-goldman-774_crime_crime-is-naught-but-misdirected-energy-s_3214426.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/emma-goldman-774_crime_crime-is-naught-but-misdirected-energy-s_3214426.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/emma-goldman-774_crime_crime-is-naught-but-misdirected-energy-s_3214426.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Crime is naught but misdirected energy. 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Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. Nuclear power, if we are to believe its advocates, is presumably going to be well used by the same mentality that has egregiously devalued and misapplied man- and womanpower. If we had an unlimited supply of solar or wind power, we would use that destructively, too, for the same reasons.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wendell Berry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/one-possibility-is-just-to-tag-along-with-the-fantasists-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/wendell-berry-236_culture_one-possibility-is-just-to-tag-along-wit_425518.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/wendell-berry-236_culture_one-possibility-is-just-to-tag-along-wit_425518.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/wendell-berry-236_culture_one-possibility-is-just-to-tag-along-wit_425518.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us…” — Wendell Berry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“On the daytime side of Earth, the solar radiation hitting the top fo the atmosphere deposits around 1,300 watts of power per square meter. That's about the same amount used by an electric kettle. It doesn't seem like a great deal. But add up that incoming solar radiation across one whole hemisphere of Earth, and a total of about 174 petawatts (10^15, or a quadrillion, watts) of solar power is hitting the top of the atmosphere. A colossal total of 89 petawatts of that same power is absorbed by the surface of the Earth directly. The rest is reflected by the surface, or absorbed by the atmosphere reflected by its clouds of condensed water. By human standards this is a fearsome amount of Energy. Estimates of current human energy consumption suggest that in a single year we use roughly 1.6 X 10^11 megawatt-hours, which means that with 8,760 hours in a year we are using energy at a rate of about 0.018 petawatts. All life on Earth (adding up photosynthetic organisms, water transpiration in plants, and what life gets from chemical and geophysical energy) is estimated to consume energy at a rate of between 0.1 and 5 petawatts. In other words, despite life's potent footpirnt on the planet, on a cosmic scale it's still barely sipping at what the Sun's photons rain down on us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Caleb Scharf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caleb-scharf/on-the-daytime-side-of-earth-the-solar-radiation-hitting-the-top-fo/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/caleb-scharf-17792_energy-consumption_on-the-daytime-side-of-earth-the-solar-r_1836806.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/caleb-scharf-17792_energy-consumption_on-the-daytime-side-of-earth-the-solar-r_1836806.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/caleb-scharf-17792_energy-consumption_on-the-daytime-side-of-earth-the-solar-r_1836806.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“On the daytime side of Earth, the solar radiation hitting the top fo the atmosphere deposits around 1,300…” — Caleb Scharf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work. Many a year I have thought and pondered, lost myself in speculations and theories, considering man as a mass moved by a force, viewing his inexplicable movement in the light of a mechanical one, and applying the simple principles of mechanics to the analysis of the same until I arrived at these solutions, only to realize that they were taught to me in my early childhood. These three words sound the key-notes of the Christian religion. Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement. These are the only three solutions which are possible of that great problem, and all of them have one object, one end, namely, to increase human energy. When we recognize this, we cannot help wondering how profoundly wise and scientific and how immensely practical the Christian religion is, and in what a marked contrast it stands in this respect to other religions. It is unmistakably the result of practical experiment and scientific observation which have extended through the ages, while other religions seem to be the outcome of merely abstract reasoning. Work, untiring effort, useful and accumulative, with periods of rest and recuperation aiming at higher efficiency, is its chief and ever-recurring command. Thus we are inspired both by Christianity and Science to do our utmost toward increasing the performance of mankind. 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