Human Quotes

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

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

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

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

I am just one human being.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

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

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

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

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

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.