Humans Quotes · Page 230

“Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.”

— Amit Kalantri

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

— Wassily Kandinsky

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

— Max Lucado

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

— John Dryden

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

— Annie Dillard

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition,

— Sharon Gless

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

— Teresa of Avila

I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under…

— Adrienne Rich

The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,…

— Thomas Sowell

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do…

— Mark Twain

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…

— John Henrik Clarke

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other…

— Simone Weil

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us…

— Sholem Asch

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by…

— Konrad Lorenz

It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.…

— Sherry Turkle

There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,…

— Stefan Zweig

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new…

— Roger Ascham

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,…

— Edmund Burke

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth…

— Bruce Lee

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is…

— Anonymous

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

— Alexandre Dumas

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

— J.R. Ward

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown…

— John Gierach

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings…

— Brian Solis

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

— Norman Cousins

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

— Max Weinberg

I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.

— Cheryl Strayed

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

— James Thayer

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

— D. H. Lawrence

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

— Sally Miller Gearhart

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

— Leo Tolstoy

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

— Julie Smith

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy…

— Gena Showalter

James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth.

— Hosea Williams