Human Quotes

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can neve...

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

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

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the huma...

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has eve...

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect th...

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. T...

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the speci...

What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, an...

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

The human heart is my school.

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladd...

Do women in love feel as men do? Do men love as women love? His virgin bride shared her pipe-frame b...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason...

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world...

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has its...

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free ...

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of hum...

It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the b...

Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of ...

There is nothing wrong with you... Life isn't supposed to be easy... It is designed to be challengin...

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or so...

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his ...

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my dut...

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility up...

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to kno...

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise ...

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not...

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a...

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that th...

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infra...

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most ba...

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many t...

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappe...

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership...

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation sh...

Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily com...

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenaci...

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or us...

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Ri...

Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required ...

I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only ...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They t...

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit ...

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,...

She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo...

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

You are human and fallible.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more bri...

Death is part of who we are. It guidesus. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be hu...

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe,...

You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe,...

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out ...

Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsi...

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.