Human beings Quote by Harvey Cox

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it…

— Harvey Cox

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

— Joan Didion

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

— Cameron Diaz

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the…

— Henri Nouwen

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

— Christopher Bram

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more…

— Alan Rickman

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

— Philip Pullman

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.…

— Reynolds Price

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in…

— James Orbinski

“But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful information…

— Hugh MacLeod

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

— Steven Soderbergh