Human Experience Quotes
244 quotes by 211 authors
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
— Frederick Buechner
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity…
— Diablo Cody
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
— Jennifer Aniston
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything…
— Pema Chodron
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Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand…
— Rebecca Goldstein
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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
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Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a…
— Edwin S. Shneidman
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of…
— Pema Chodron
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel…
— Chaim Potok
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There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent.…
— Anne Hathaway
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic…
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and…
— Max Born
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience…
— Emma Goldman
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We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to…
— Harold S. Kushner
Who Wrote These Human Experience Quotes
211 authors contributed a total of 244 Human Experience Quotes, led by these top contributors: