The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something. — Edna Adan Ismail Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished… — James Payn Copy Share Image
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything about what it means to be a human being, so every role is an excuse to delve into… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
