Human Quotes

22022 quotes by 8110 authors

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It… — Louis C. K.
Every man carries the entire form of human condition. — Michel de Montaigne
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The… — Thomas Carlyle
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably… — Max Beerbohm
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw
Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings? — Milton Berle
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which… — Malcolm X
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say… — Abraham Lincoln
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The… — Albert Einstein
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are… — Thomas Jefferson
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is… — Mark Twain
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The… — Ambrose Bierce
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Unknown Author
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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