Beings Quotes

3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we… — Carlos Castaneda
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If… — Ayn Rand
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers… — Paulo Coelho
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering. — Gautama Buddha
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. — Germaine Greer
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that… — Philip Yancey
I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood… — Evangeline Lilly
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey,… — Satish Kumar
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the… — Laozi
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical… — Edward Bernays
We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that… — Bob Parsons
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If… — Paul Davies
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much… — Edward Sapir
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and… — Paulo Coelho
This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,… — Jorge Luis Borges
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.… — George Lois
I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings. — David Ogilvy
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source… — Adolf Eichmann
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more… — Daniel H. Pink
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect… — Daniel H. Pink
What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to… — Daniel Gilbert
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. — Daniel Gilbert
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. — Jonathan Haidt

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