Human Quotes
I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?""You know. So...
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There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanct...
Show MoreEnvy is human nature.
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, u...
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Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got ...
Show MoreIt is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than b...
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator ...
Show MoreI'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place...
Show MoreThe founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally pr...
Show More...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if h...
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There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...
Show MoreI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess ch...
Show MoreLet freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
Everyone judges, it's a human nature.
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and ...
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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other ...
Show Morei'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to stri...
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What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to...
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to erad...
Show MoreCarn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as hu...
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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fil...
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Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, trul...
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history...
Show MorePolitics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, o...
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So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that n...
Show MoreTo err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness,...
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fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...
Show MoreIn an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the trib...
Show MoreEmpathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree cou...
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human natu...
Show MoreProperly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an...
Show MoreSee everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...
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When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abr...
Show MoreOutside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot d...
Show MoreOur technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that...
Show MoreAll different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding ou...
Show MoreSupercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by a...
Show MoreArtificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 204...
Show MoreWhen you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological an...
Show MoreWe, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word...
Show MoreAn Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and sprea...
Show MoreBeauty arises out of human inspiration.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...
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Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someo...
Show MoreWhat we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontati...
Show MoreWe of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human bei...
Show MoreTo err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at t...
Show MoreCruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...
Show MoreCare is a state in which something does matter it is the source of human tenderness.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to thr...
Show MoreBut attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your ...
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But are we not at the point where we can no longer make the distinction between normal and neurotic?...
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Sisyphus,' is an interpretation of the unavoidable limits to which everyone who is human is condemne...
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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a...
Show Moreand when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

We’re naked under our clothes; we both know what it’s like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be...
Show MoreAn attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature...
Show MoreThroughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanat...
Show MoreAs human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart fr...
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilizatio...
Show MoreThe marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes pr...
Show MorePower is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
Show MoreYes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no othe...
Show MoreAnger's not bad," he said. "It's human...
But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits....
Show MoreWe are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype ea...
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