Beings Quotes
3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors
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We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us…
— Malala Yousafzai
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No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.
— Creed Bratton
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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help…
— Hippocrates
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Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the…
— Florence Nightingale
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The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to…
— Noam Chomsky
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The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
— Heywood Broun
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
— Douglas Coupland
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One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is…
— Avicenna
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The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God,…
— Fethullah Gulen
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In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the…
— Shirley Hazzard
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
— Marquis de Sade
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Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on…
— Tim Green
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Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more…
— Bob Hawke
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural.…
— Davis McCaughey
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We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know,…
— Neville Bonner
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We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home-Earth-is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of…
— Al Gore
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart…
— Washington Irving
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to…
— William Blum
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.…
— Unknown Author
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but…
— Lactantius
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
— Albert Einstein
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