Being human Quote by Lewis Carroll

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

— C. S. Lewis

“The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

— George Herbert

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

— Ben Jonson

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the…

— Bertrand Russell

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“There's a difference between Homo Sapiens and Human - Homo Sapiens is a meaningless technicality, Human is a lived promise.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

— Rumi

“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of…

— Jay Woodman

“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.”

— Beth Revis