The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It's funny when you can actually relate to the fans on a human level and it happens all the time. People assume… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and… — Terry Taylor Copy Share Image
It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in… — Hannah More Copy Share Image