Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life… — George Smoot Copy Share Image
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Those citizens are distracted by the toys technology has supplied, and fail to recognize the ways in which what they most deeply… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to… — Colleen Saidman Copy Share Image
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of… — James Mill Copy Share Image
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image