Humans Quotes · Page 10

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

— Jane Goodall

Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and…

— Ursula Goodenough

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

— Sting

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to…

— James Madison

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't…

— Nalini Singh

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:…

— Octave Mirbeau

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets…

— Criss Jami

If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

— Deepak Chopra

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us…

— Jenny Lawson

After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we…

— Tony Hsieh

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with…

— Sheryl Lee

I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.

— Cesar Millan

If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look…

— Robert Grudin

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…

— Christopher Hitchens

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of…

— Clark Gregg

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

— Fred Hollows

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque…

— George Eliot

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good…

— Haruki Murakami

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

— Jan de Bont

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.…

— Eoin Colfer

I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing…

— Susan Hill

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face…

— Anita Roddick