Human Activity Quotes

112 quotes by 98 authors

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human… — Julian Baggini
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions… — John Piper
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian… — David Drake
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. — Michael Crichton
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something… — Erich Fromm
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. — Jean Vanier
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. — Stephen Jay Gould
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every… — John Pilger
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Thinking is the most overrated human activity. — Wendell Berry
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth,… — Arthur C. Clarke
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress. — Nikolay Chernyshevsky
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of… — H.G. Wells
Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling… — Robert Farrar Capon
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a… — William Feather
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and… — Ian Goldin
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. — Chiang Kai-shek
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine.… — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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