Human Affairs Quotes

106 quotes by 89 authors

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links… — Roger Bannister
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you… — Saint Basil
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. — James Allen
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. — Noam Chomsky
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of… — Sherman Glenn Finesilver
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. — Edward Bond
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. — Victor Hugo
And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and… — George McGovern
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
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
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
On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success… — Winston Churchill
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. — Iris Murdoch
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs. — Albert Einstein

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