Humans Quotes · Page 234

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

— Huston Smith

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is…

— Joan D. Vinge

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or…

— Steve Jobs

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

— George Gilder

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

— Madeleine Albright

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to…

— Giorgio Vasari

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to…

— Eamon de Valera

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling…

— Rachel Griffiths

I'm not human, Ms. Deveraux. In case you haven't noticed, I'm one of the damned. (Valerius) Baby, open your eyes and look…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom…

— Pope John Paul II

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate.…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and…

— Anonymous

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not…

— John Adams

One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we…

— George Matthew Adams

I don't see anything that could happen that could turn Never Trumpers into Trumper voters. They're two dug in on the whole…

— Rush Limbaugh

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away…

— Charles Bukowski

The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we…

— Linda Bender

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human…

— M. Scott Peck

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and…

— Hannah Arendt

I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have…

— Jason Silva

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

— David Limbaugh

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

— Youssef Ziedan

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

— Anonymous

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

— Natascha McElhone

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is…

— Jerry Brown

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate…

— Kathy Najimy

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we…

— Kerry Washington

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

— Anonymous

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

— Ethel Waters

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

— Charles Mengel Allen

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

— George Eliot

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with…

— John of Kronstadt

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

— Alexander Hamilton

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

— Gordon Willis

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

— Michael J. Fox