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Human Quotes by George Eliot
- 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;…
- I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light…
- It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
- Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
- Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
- Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!…
- A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
- The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at…
- If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's…
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…
- Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that…
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.…
- So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,…
- Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong