Human Actions Quotes

37 quotes by 31 authors

• The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. — Nhat Hanh
• The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke
• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. — Jean-Paul Sartre
• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm… — Zadie Smith
• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza
• Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The… — E. M. Forster
• Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the… — Neale Donald Walsch
• Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. — Martin Rees
• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza
• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all… — Adam Johnson
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. — Aristotle
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. — Aristotle
• 'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. — James Montgomery
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle

Who Wrote These Human Actions Quotes

31 authors contributed a total of 37 Human Actions Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Human Actions Quotes by Aristotle
• 3 Human Actions Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
• 2 Human Actions Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Zadie Smith
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Terry Eagleton
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Seth Godin
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Porphyry
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Nhat Hanh
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Neale Donald Walsch
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Martin Rees
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Madame de Stael
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Louis Pasteur
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Lisa Randall
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Kent Nerburn
• 1 Human Actions Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Human Actions Quote by John Locke
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
• 1 Human Actions Quote by James Montgomery
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Herman Melville
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Gerda Lerner
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Franz Kafka
• 1 Human Actions Quote by Edmund Burke
• 1 Human Actions Quote by E. M. Forster