Human Quotes

22022 quotes by 8110 authors

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! — Robert Browning
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes… — Hannah Arendt
All human activity is prompted by desire. — Bertrand Russell
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;… — George Eliot
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace. — William Blake
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be… — Unknown Author
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit… — John Stuart Mill
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. — Malcolm De Chazal
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine.… — Dominique Moceanu
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. — Leon Uris
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great… — Ambrose Bierce
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. — Simon Gray
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with… — Winston Churchill
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B. C. Forbes
The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire,… — Dean Karnazes
"Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe and the one… — Kyuzo Mifune
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our… — Leo Buscaglia

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