Humans Quotes · Page 1,227

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human…

— Carl Sagan

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

— Joe Meno

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— Joel Garreau

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate…

— Marianne Thieme

To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and…

— George Cheyne

He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and…

— Cassandra Clare

No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a…

— Tim Howard

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a…

— David Millar

Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.”

— Amit Kalantri

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

— Oliver Stone

In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,…

— John Naisbitt

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few…

— John Steinbeck

“Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in…

— Matt Haig

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that…

— Keira Knightley

“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.”

— Amit Kalantri

The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are…

— Robert Genn

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being…

— Phyllis Bottome

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of…

— Aesop

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in…

— Michel Foucault

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a…

— Paul R. Ehrlich