Truly Human Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

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
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what… — Mother Teresa
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve. — Ernest L. Boyer
A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone… — Fethullah Gulen
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly… — Albert Schweitzer
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. — Parker J. Palmer
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other… — Pope John Paul II
The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly… — John Welwood
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly… — Desmond Tutu
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world. — Richard Rorty
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all;… — William Stringfellow
Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the… — Simon Sinek
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly… — Frederick Buechner
There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will. — Kohta Hirano
Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond… — Dalai Lama
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true… — Viktor E. Frankl
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human… — Eric Hoffer
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. — J. Irwin Miller
It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human. — Kate Jacobs
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human. — Saadi

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