Humans Quotes · Page 296

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

— Alfred North Whitehead

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of…

— Helen Lynd

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

— Carl Sagan

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

— John Banville

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

— Willie D

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear…

— Anonymous

And maybe I am a monster. I don't know the answer to that. But what I do know is that even if…

— Cassandra Clare

The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making…

— Daniel Dennett

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not…

— Debbie Harry

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ...…

— August Wilson

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by,…

— Abraham Maslow

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I do think it's important to be honest about your feelings in a long term relationship because it's totally human to be…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man…

— Halldór Laxness

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right…

— Mother Teresa

I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural…

— Tariq Ramadan

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was…

— Oscar Wilde

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and…

— Meir Shalev

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm…

— Aja Naomi King

The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as…

— James Madison

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

— Maurice Saatchi

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

— Abraham Maslow

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

— Voltaire

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

— Peter Senge

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

— David Foster Wallace

“Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.”

— Amit Kalantri

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

— Ross Douthat

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

— Kent V. Flannery

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

— Kirti Kulhari

Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.

— Caroline Myss

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

— Richard K. Morgan

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

— Bernie Sanders

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

— Marcus Aurelius