Quotation Explorer - 'Human'

One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken - Tommy Cotton

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. - William Pickens

Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. - Arnold Bennett

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment - Thomas Jefferson

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. - Fred Rogers

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God. - Warren Ellis

I think insecurity underscores most human behavior. Because we're insecure, we want to be able to explain and control everything in order to protect ourselves. - Marty Rubin

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein

The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of others, must be commended and followed no further than they were followers of Christ. - Jonathan Edwards

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base... - D.H. Lawrence

What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words! - Dada Bhagwan

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe. - Valerie Tarico

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair. - Fernán Caballero

It's embarrassing to be human. - Kurt Vonnegut

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

Hope may spring eternal in the human breast but it only flourishes through action. - Marty Rubin

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. - Shannon L. Alder

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings - Evan Esar

When first human found life was a virgin,People make it a bitch - Mohammed Sekouty

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are. - Cory Duchesne

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you. - Orson Scott Card

Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human. - Amber Deckers

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all. - Vandana Shiva

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. - Leo Tolstoy

Human kind cannot bear much reality. - T. S. Eliot

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become. - Viktor E. Frankl

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. - Kathleen Norris

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. - Rosa Luxemburg

One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny. - Dennis E. Adonis

I m human, I m not perfect. Although, I make mistakes all the time. - Chetan Bhagat

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master? - Saurabh Sharma

Ransomware is more about manipulating vulnerabilities in human psychology than the adversary's technological sophistication - James Scott

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower... - Iris Murdoch

It doesn't matter when, how old am I and how. When the first robot is build and it can be like a human which will mean can think, and communicate I will go and buy it. Because this will be the best friend ever will have and ever had! - Deyth Banger

The ability to love is the divine power of human. - Debasish Mridha

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. - Sam Harris

Kindness should be a priority for every human being. - Debasish Mridha

There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next. - Laurence Overmire

Human behavior makes it hard to believe in human intelligence. - Marty Rubin

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. - Baruch Spinoza

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? - Milan Kundera

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. - Jalaluddin Rumi

The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations. - Marlen Haushofer

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word. - Ander Monson

A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality. - Thomas Moore

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little. - Edith Hamilton

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. - Woodrow Wilson

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. - Charles W. Chesnutt

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. - Gene Roddenberry

Human soul is a car and human body is a driver. One cannot run without the other. - Santosh Kalwar

The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day. - Abhijit Naskar

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Robert A. Heinlein

Spend Night with Lonely Married Women is pleasure Moments of the life.Life for Fun, not waste it.Being Human and do social responsibilities - Lolly

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth

I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes. - Philip Hoare

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit. - Ashley Montagu

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. - Lillian Smith

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being. - Franz Kafka

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. - Wade Davis

Love" is a brilliant defying logic that thrives on human weaknesses! - Vishwanath S J

Anyone who has experienced a strange episode in their life that defies all present scientific knowledge can appreciate the limits of human knowledge. There's nothing like such an event to make you keenly aware of how little we truly know and understand. - Steven Symes

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form. - Kami Garcia

It is human nature to strive. - Temple Grandin

As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world. - Steven Magee

It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness. - John Steinbeck

Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans. - Chuck Klosterman

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say. - Jonah Goldberg

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant

She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says.'Which part?,' I ask.'Being human. - A.M. Homes

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you. - James Coburn

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms. - Richard Black

Human kind is on one big power trip that is ripping the sole out of the subtleness and kindness of the human spirit - Aidan Donnelly

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part - Louis D. Brandeis

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it. - Noormohammad Bhuayan

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially grown up and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things. - Linda Fisher Thornton

The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator. - Habeeb Akande

Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first. - Lara Biyuts

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace. - Abraham Verghese

Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin - Sunday Adelaja

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. - Francis Bacon

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons. - Egon Bahr

The horrible monsters in this world are the ones that wear human face - 69rascal

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Unknown

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. - Hermann Bondi

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race. - Edward O. Sisson

You are my brother. You are my sister. We are one human family. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope. - Michael Paterniti

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place. - Duop Chak Wuol

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit. - Fakeer Ishavardas

By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was so now; the climber suddenly forgot his fears in a smile. The choir had chosen this precise moment to start the Nunc Dimittis. - Whipplesnaith

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience. - Marty Rubin

Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. - Bertrand Russell

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they're not real? - Audrey Regan

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric. - Bartolomeo Vanzetti

you can't read Human mind by #Psychology... you can read their mind by talking with them at night.. - Self_Thought

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It is human to sin but divine to be saved. - Lailah Gifty Akita

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. - Wendy McElroy

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human. - Tim Mann artist

Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad. - Harris Wittels

How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change. - Seneca

Far more wondrous than the wonders of the world are wonders of the human body . . . the Eyes, the Ears, the Nose, the Mouth, the Hands, the Head and the Heart. - RVM

After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. - Edgar Allan Poe

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they? - Alyssa Hubbard

The human mind is the most unreliable things in the universe. So control it. - Noormohammad Bhuayan

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour. - Oskar Morgenstern

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human. - Rob Bell

There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it. - Steven Magee

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. - Heinrich Heine

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis

The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. - Betty Friedan

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. - Walter Farley

Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt. - Steven Magee

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering. - Stefan Molyneux

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. - John F. Kennedy

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. - Lewis Thomas

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life. - Jimmy Carter

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them. - Floriano Martins

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

If human beings are the most intelligent creatures on earth, why is it that the other less intelligent creatures realise themselves in their group of spieces that they are the same despite the difference in colour or condition, while humam beings don't - Nathanael Kanyinga

If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul. - Michael Meade

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. - John N. Gray

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. - Stefan Zweig

God is a creation of human brain - Durgesh Satpathy

Radical feminism is working for the eradication of domination and elitsim in all human relationships. This would make self-determination the ultimate good and require the downfall of society as we know it today. - Cellestine Ware

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. - Abraham Lincoln

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. - Henry Ellis

The less human you feel, the more human you become. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. - M.F. Moonzajer

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination. - William E. Paden

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us. - Anthony Esolen

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. - Augustine of Hippo

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. - Margaret Bourke-White

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. - Madeleine L'Engle

The key to every human heart is love. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain. - Carl Sagan

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. - Scott F. Fitzgerald

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. - Jonathan Haidt

Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation. - Debasish Mridha

Human destiny depends on depth of education. - Debasish Mridha

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. - Lois McMaster Bujold

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things - Brandon Scott Gorrell

What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire? - Faraaz Kazi

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life. - Kamand Kojouri

The history of human nature: How far can we get away with being complete and utter bastards, before we have to backtrack? - Paul MacAlindin

It is reasonable to reason with God because when you only rely on human reasoning, you will be diverted from your purpose. - Gugu Mona

I’m less interested in proselytizing or a bigger tent for its own sake than in issues of human flourishing. What are the best conditions in which people live and flourish? It’s more the, How do we get along? What does it mean for living now? - Karen L. King

Human person as a unit harmonic and dynamic individual integrates in the living environment using for this purpose all available resources. - Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness. - Abhijit Naskar

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet. - Marilynne Robinson

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. - Socrates

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! - C.G. Jung

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom. - Wes Adamson

music is for most of the part,can become an ecstasy of the human mind. - J.T.Abraham

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence. - Thomas Mann

Humans need fantasy to be human. - Terry Pratchett

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development - Albert Einstein

i may died as human but humanity in me is still alive - vinod

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. - Stephen R. Covey

Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him. - Ben Midland

The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death - Manuel Newton-Management Consultant Poet MA M.Com LLB ICWA FIBAM FIMM etc

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. - Stefan Molyneux

Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youthThe human spirit sublimatesthe impulses it thwarts;a healthy sex life mitigatesthe lust for other sports. - Piet Hein

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston S. Churchill

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me. - Jon Katz

Hope burns eternal in the human heart. - O.R. Melling

It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature. - Maximus Freeman

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. - Albert Einstein

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. - H. L. Mencken

I bet the human brain is a kludge. - Marvin Minsky

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. - Malcolm Gladwell

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary? - Carl Sagan

If the cockroaches survive and we don't, what does that say about human intelligence? - Marty Rubin

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution. - Christina Engela

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo

A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently. - Saaif Alam

Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the same time, thoughts are the byproducts of complex interactions of these intelligent atoms. - Debasish Mridha

Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish! - Ramana Pemmaraju

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. - Abraham H. Maslow

There are two souls in a body of a human these souls are GOD & DEVIL.if u r going to do any work it is good or ither it is bad always listen ur GOD's soul. - Hoshiyar

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements... Unlike in business transactions... - honeya

The greatest thing a human being can do is to be compassionate to humanity. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" ) - Erik Pevernagie

Someone's weaknesses are the strength which allows them to be human. - M (Michelle) Carithers

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. - Aldous Huxley

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. - Lionel Trilling

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. - Philip Pullman

We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural. - Kathy Sierra

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash. - Scott Hahn

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. - Adam Gopnik

Love Has No Color.... No Race.... Love Is Pure And Divine But Only A Little of Us Are Able To Preserve It's Purity.... Sadly, In This Digital World, Purity Is Rare To Find In Human.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

Come away,O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility. - Beyers Naudé

Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications. - Chloe Thurlow

They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it. - Anaïs Nin

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves. - Amish Tripathi

On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil leared a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. - Laura Hillenbrand

STORIES" it should not be the perfect,not be untold,not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is?? - Alisha mariam

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence. - Lori Goodwin

We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'. - Abhijit Naskar

In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. - Sayo Masuda

The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world. - John Paul Warren

But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] - David Foster Wallace

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness. - Unknown or The Archictect from the Matrix reloaded movie

People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses. - Sunday Adelaja

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - H. P. Lovecraft

I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.

They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests. ....But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood. - Israelmore Ayivor

Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. - Doris Lessing

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence? - David W. Earle

Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It has an eternal impact and it can change everything. - William Branks

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250 - Harper's Index

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad. - Mawde Royden

No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination. - Marty Rubin

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree. - Kim Ki-duk

You are human. You love who you love.You fuck who you fuck. That should be enough—no labels.— Connor Cobalt - Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse. - Shane MacGowan

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war. - Debasish Mridha

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. - Edward de Bono

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. - Kurt Vonnegut

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? - John L. O'Sullivan

To me, the meaning of a human life is to be happy. It's to achieve happiness right now, it's to make sure you're happy in the future. And if some people on YouTube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is: do whatever you have to do to be happy. - Dan Howell

We as human being do dream & do expect a lot for what we are not entitled but there comes a phase when we get what we have never expected or dreamt of.... So, Accept every little thing that life offers cause might be this is what we deserve ....... - Anonymous.

Jewish vampires: Garlic? As a weapon? No its a spice silly human - Tasha Turner

As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? - Rowan Atkinson

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. - Dag Hammarskjold

Often times we allow ourselves to become impatient, by viewing God’s promises based on our human knowledge. Our thoughts and ways are irrelevant in his judgment to grant any of our requests. We need to have patience and trust in God for answers to our requests. - Ellen J. Barrier

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. - Jewel

Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved... - Kate Mullane Robertson

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (, June 10, 1963, American University speech) - John F. Kennedy

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD - Rose De Matta

Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year. - Yahtzee Croshaw

To err is human, but to err on the side of compassion is humane. - Karl Schmidtt

Perfection of this human life happens when we take the responsibility to be and act as authentic Leaders in every life situation. - Indy Bissessur

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing. - Voltaire

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. - Bill Clinton

Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence. - Gerald M. Givens

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation. - William J. Bernstein

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. - Joanna R. Macy

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end. - Ashwin Sanghi

All human activity is prompted by desire. - Bertrand Russell

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents. - Eric Hoffer

And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. - Alfred Tennyson

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. - Martin Cruz Smith

Sometimes ignorance is a bliss. If you reach enlightenment (in one way or another), you may see the reality of human nature. You may like it, or you may reject it. But certainly you won't regret it. Rise again! - MD. Muhtashimur Rahman

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make - Loknath

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be. - Shannon L. Alder

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. - Pope Benedict XVI

I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again. - Munia Khan

I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it. - Madlib

Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:"I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my way out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth. - Mark Passio

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan

The animals known as human beings live in humongous condominium blocks, just going about their daily lives. I've come to realize that it's just a modern jungle. And I'm the girl who's wandered into the forest. - Inio Asano

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it. - Gary Hopkins

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around. - Jonas Eriksson

A world where no animal is afraid of humans and no human is afraid of other humans will a place of infinite divinity! - Mehmet Murat ildan

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. - Aldous Huxley

Every human being begins and ends the same way, but how much they love the humanity distinguish him from others. - Debasish Mridha

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. - Noam Chomsky

Universe is nothing, but human thought. - Farid Huseynli

Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence. - Alija Izetbegović

We are humans first and the law always protects our basic human rights, but survival always remains a chance for any of us to go through hard times and make it through the day. - Auliq-Ice

Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. - Kim J. Vicente

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls? - M.F. Moonzajer

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us. - Lame Deer

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. - George Eliot

Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light. - Christopher Earle

Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking. - James Wood

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. - Mark Twain

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. - Noam Chomsky

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power - Wole Soyinka

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. - Clifford Geertz

Love in action puts a mind at ease. It creates wonders and good feelings. Such is the magic word that when you allow it to flow freely, it awakens every human heart, and uplifts every human spirit. - Rita Barnes

We were not born into this life knowingthat we were going to becomerich or poor, striving or with a celeb status, sick or healthy.But one thing that I know is thatthe human mind is a powerful tool to achieve success. No matter the circumstances,greatness is when you pushyourself above the odds. - Henry Johnson Jr

Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. - Huston Smith

Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy. - Inuyasha

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature. - S.S. Van Dine

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. - André Malraux

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name - Pope John Paul II

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. - Mark Twain

It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size--mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures--a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin. - Rosamond Purcell

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. - George Orwell

When you secretly love someone it makes you an amazingly gentle and loving human being. - Prassant Kevin

Human resources could be purchased and sold but not time. - Sunday Adelaja

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature. - David O. McKay

Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored. - Abhijit Naskar

Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources. - Sunday Adelaja

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart. - Marion Wink

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. - Lisa Kogan

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. - Michael Jackson

When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying.. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why... - Erik Tanghe

We are the beauty of the worldenveloped within the confines of a human structure:created out of love to lovefor all of eternity. - J.D. Leisher

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings. - Albert Hofmann

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. - Sunday Adelaja

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny. - Abhijit Naskar

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end. - Henry L. Ellsworth

Every human being is a reflection of this universe. - Debasish Mridha

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. - Leon Trotsky

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. - Mark Twain

I don’t want my ‘part’ taken! I haven’t ‘got’ a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to understand the emotions of others, imposing hard straight lines - or ‘sides’ as they call them - onto tender curvaceous human beings who have none. - Frances Partridge

Everything you know is a story. That’s how human consciousness works. - Ed Gray

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute - Jalaluddin Rumi

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people. - Ingrid

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path. - Sameh Elsayed

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit. - Asa Don Brown

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. - Spider Webb

Choose to see the 'good' in a person rather than pondering over the 'bad' ;human beings are but fallible.... - Henrietta Newton Martin

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. - William James

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. - Baruch Spinoza

Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless. - David Attenborough

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human. - Rebecca McKinsey

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. - Jane Austen

Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions - Vasilios Karpos

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Albert Einstein

It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it. - Charlotte Bronte

Man is indeed the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma); it is possible for infinite divinity to arise within. The moment he has a desire, he becomes a human! Otherwise, he can acquire whatever he wants, but he is unable to do so because of impediments (antray). - Dada Bhagwan

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge. - Stuart Sherman

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. - Octavia E. Butler

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Try to get as much as possible knowledge about the Universe in your life. Because after your death it will decide whether you will become God or reborn as a human to learn remaining knowledge. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yesterday. - ME :)

Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation. - Toni Sorenson

Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those. - Debasish Mridha

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. - Horace Mann

Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity. - Mohith Agadi

I am so scared of what will kill me in the end for I am not prepared, I hope i'll get the chance to be someone, to be human, look what we've done - Ellie Goulding

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. - Jack Kerouac

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That's something I want to see again. In terms of the tone of the film, it looks at where we are as a people and has a universality about human experience. - Christopher J. Nolan

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. - Daniel Nayeri

somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely. - Graham McNamee

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. - Giambattista Vico

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other. - A.W. Tozer

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health. - Roger Scruton

Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better. - Stephen Manoharan

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. - M.F. Moonzajer

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. - Kofi Annan

Even God does not call every human a man. There are some who have not managed to attain the height of those who God refers to as men. They might be giving birth, eating and drinking, having fun, but yet, when they don’t live for what they were created for, they remain biomasses. - Sunday Adelaja

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. - Desmond Morris

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human. - Santosh Kalwar

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice. - Mark Horton

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. - John Locke

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change. - Leo Tolstoy

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. - Joseph Addison

The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love. - Mabel Iam

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. - Jeremy Bentham

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. - John Locke

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. - Abhijit Naskar

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear. - Paulo Coelho

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. - Marilyn Monroe

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them. - Isaac Asimov

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me. - Alicen Grey

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. - Thomas Paine

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas H. Huxley

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future - Mmanti Umoh

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. - Samuel Johnson

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human. - Kamand Kojouri

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. - Giorgio de Chirico

Love is the greatest force to change human heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. - George Eliot

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred? - Jeffrey McDaniel

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. - Stephen Jay Gould

Human nature is not of itself vicious. - Thomas Paine

The human mind is an uninvented field and the source of unlimited resources. - Debasish Mridha

There is a greater power than human strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything - Stewart Stafford

The human worker will go the way of the horse. - Wassily Leontief

Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart. - Elma Mitchell

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins. - Toba Beta

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. - Martin Luther King Jr.

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth. He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why. "Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." Aramis Jukes - Ambrose Bierce

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests. - Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this... - William Wordsworth

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind. - Raheel Farooq

Assumption is the biggest human consumption. - Tasneem Hameed

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. - Edward R. Murrow

Fear is the root of all evil. Better live a single day fearlessly than living a long but fearful life. Especially, never fear another human being. Fear is the root of all relationship problems. - His Holiness Divas

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. - Robin Morgan

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. - François Fénelon

For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness? - Kamand Kojouri

You don't have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it's the part of humanity. - Euginia Herlihy

Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived. - Tim Gilmore

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex. - Andrew Smith

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home. - Debasish Mridha

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. - George Santayana

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. - Neal A. Maxwell

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don’t want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can’t see the big possibilities. - Debasish Mridha

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The reason sex is fun is not to cater to the desire for individual human pleasure, but because hunanity would have ceased to exist a long time ago if it were drudgery. - Joe Beaton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine. - Swami Beyondananda

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Charlotte Bronte

One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen. - John O'Donohue

The greatest power that a human possesses is the power of pure love. - Debasish Mridha

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

It is during a time of failure we bury a past and resurrect a future. Becoming righteous, discerning, and wise are our most prized possessions and across every cultures-this is the greatest feat of all human life. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus. - Mother Teresa

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue. - Santosh Kalwar

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. - Gore Vidal

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - George Jessel

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again. - George W. Bush

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. - Françoise Mauriac

I am not a fan of sealed up sterile homes or Faraday cages and their use in human health, although I do understand that some people do feel relief in these environments. - Steven Magee

The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state. - Steven Magee

If you can struggle to be a Muslim everyday.Don`t forget to struggle to be a human also. - sazrulfaez

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. - Bette Davis

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart. - Patricia Polacco

Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource. - Kristen Lamb

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks

Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth. - Laurie H. Hutzler

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it. - Larry Levis

Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it. - K.K. Cook

We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. - Julia Cameron

We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! - Widad Akreyi

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. - Charlie Kaufman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. - Richard Feynman

Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable. - Ransom Riggs

The human spirit must prevail over technology. - Albert Einstein

You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive....You take a fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from. - Annie Proulx

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. - Humphry Davy

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself. - Steve Maraboli

Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it. - Michael Marshall

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. - Silvia Hartmann

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times. - Leo Tolstoy

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. - Susan Sontag

Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human. - Roy T. Bennett

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next. - Robert Henri

A human being was connected to the world through his or her skin and how could someone with clogged pores feel the environment or be sensitive to its vibrations? - Fatema Mernissi

Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray. - Jim George

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions. - Shams-i Tabrizi

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. - Kurt Vonnegut

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid. - George Orwell

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. - Abhijit Naskar

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means. - Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. - Aristotle

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God. - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture. - Sherwood L. Washburn

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. - Martin Luther King Jr.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? - Ann Druyan

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. - Ted Chiang

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. - Bette Davis

The divine strength is greater than human strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it. - Majid Kazmi

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential as human beings by spending our lives serving others through mediums we are most passionate. - Chris Matakas

The human heart is like the reflection on the water's surface. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels. - Masashi Kishimoto Naruto Shippuden

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... - C.S. Lewis

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. - Dan Quayle

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strength en the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness. - Chico Xavier

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good. - Pope Benedict XVI

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours. - Albert Camus

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. - Samuel Johnson

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. - Michael Jackson

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive - Gary Hopkins

Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind. - Eraldo Banovac

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality. - Tobin Wilson

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal. - Mavis Leno

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. - John Ruskin

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. - Susan Rice

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. - Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who claims good or evil isn't one or either, they're just a liar... the worst kind of liar... the liar that doesn't even know they're lying. We're human. We're good during the day and evil at night, half the time those roles are reversed, that's what it's all about. - Hubert Martin

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. - Anthony Robbins

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters. - Caspar Henderson

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. - Theodore Sturgeon

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

human eyes know to converse well in many a languages & human smiles know well to conceal many a things !!! - pro moods pramodh govindan

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are. - Rich Mullins

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship. - Robert Harris

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. - Gary Shteyngart

God has provided us with a mind and logical thinking, but He also has placed into each of us a spirit. With the help of the human spirit we can perceive the Spirit of God and learn to know our Creator. - Eve Juurik

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. - Pearl S. Buck

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing. - Monica Fairview

Kindness is gracious demonstrate sensitivity and human warmth. - Kishore Bansal

I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit. - Debasish Mridha

the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons - Hannah Arendt

It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. - Doctor Who

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion. - Martin Scorsese

Every human being has the same right of achieving this Supreme knowledge (Brahmagyan). When this will be same with each man then only it will carry true value. Each and every man is tied with the same wire. Unless this communism of God is established this will not get its fulfillment. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what? - Stanislaw J. Lec

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. - Thomas Jefferson

A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human. - Donald Miller

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. - Freeman Dyson

A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letting me perform it - for letting me create a new life called Emily. - Sophia Newtown

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. - Sigmund Freud

Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. - Maya Angelou

No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit - Helen Keller

I find the question "Why are we here?" typically human. I'd suggest "Are we here?" would be the more logical choice.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none. - H. L. Mencken

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions? - Bash

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience. - Abhijit Naskar

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT? - Akira Kurosawa

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience. - Holly Lynn Payne