Humans Quotes · Page 352

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

— Charles Lindbergh

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of…

— Alberto Villoldo

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

— Michael Crichton

I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

— Greg Saunier

Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.

— Tom Peters

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

— Leonard Nimoy

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

— Jim Rohn

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've…

— Steve Hagen

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern…

— Anonymous

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I’ve always felt almost human. I’ve always known that there’s something about me that’s different than other dogs. Sure, I’m stuffed into…

— Garth Stein

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to…

— George Leonard

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for…

— Noam Chomsky

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change…

— Rebecca Solnit

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the…

— Nikola Tesla

It is so easy in this world to forget yourself or what you are here to assist with. So many either are…

— Timothy Treadwell

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are…

— A. J. Muste

I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart…

— Charles Bukowski

The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to…

— Benedict Groeschel

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see.…

— Ken Robinson

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

— Albert Einstein

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

— R. S. Thomas

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all…

— Brian Tracy

“Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

— Mary Augusta Ward

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

— Ellie Goulding

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

— Edward de Bono

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

— George Packer

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

— Rudolf Rocker

No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

— Mary Somerville

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

— Owen Gingerich

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

— Marc Bekoff

To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

— Mark E. Petersen