Humans Quotes · Page 263

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

— Tom Holt

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

— Amartya Sen

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and…

— Louise Erdrich

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

— Jayni Chase

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

— Neil Harbisson

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

— Rick Riordan

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

— Anonymous

We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave…

— Jan Egeland

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more…

— Albert Brooks

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a…

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate…

— Bill Gates

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits -…

— Maria Konnikova

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them…

— Ray William Johnson

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government…

— John Adams

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…

— Christopher Hitchens

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence,…

— Ben Cohen

I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have…

— George Carlin

We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends…

— Alice Sebold

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"…

— Anthony de Mello

“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going…

— Anonymous

Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

— Simon R. Green

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing…

— Thomas Pynchon

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct…

— George Soros

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

— Pablo Antonio Cuadra

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

— Colin Powell

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

— Kofi Annan

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

— Antonino Zichichi

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

— David James Duncan

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

— Deepak Chopra

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its…

— Ronald Reagan

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

— Terry Pratchett

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

— Kenneth Appel

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

— Kobo Abe

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

— Jawaharlal Nehru