Humans Quotes

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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only… — Howard Zinn
Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not… — Mother Teresa
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family,… — Takafumi Horie
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. — Javier Bardem
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that… — Susan Sontag
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and… — Salman Rushdie
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far… — Paul Broca
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson
I hate babies. They're so human. — Hector Hugh Munro
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I… — Pablo Neruda

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