Human Activity Quotes

112 quotes by 100 authors

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. — Rick Warren
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great… — Lance Secretan
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto… — Parker J. Palmer
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the… — Carl von Clausewitz
All human activity is prompted by desire. — Bertrand Russell
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option… — Jacques Ellul
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. — Paul Erdos
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly… — Sigmund Freud
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an… — Freeman Dyson
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture. — Pope John Paul II
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature… — Herbert Turnbull
Nature, not human activity, rules the climate. — Fred Singer
...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity. — Julia Gillard
All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest… — Steven Morrissey
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. — Parker J. Palmer
There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two… — Leo Tolstoy
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a… — Thomas Boswell

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