From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment,… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy,… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks… — David Nabarro Copy Share Image
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it… — Fran Kranz Copy Share Image
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution… — James L. Jones Copy Share Image
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image