Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

Albert Einstein

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility...

Albert Einstein

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Alfred North Whitehead

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Aldo Leopold

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

Aldous Huxley

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Aldous Huxley

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

Albert Einstein

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

Albert Einstein

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Albert Einstein

I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Albert Einstein

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

Albert Einstein

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Albert Einstein

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

Albert Einstein

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

Alexander Hamilton

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

When you are as a human being in a survival mode, order disappears,

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adolf Hitler

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

Adam Sandler

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

Adam Clarke

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Adam Brody

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Gregory Hines

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

George Foreman

I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

Tom Rath

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Tucker Max

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

Tacitus

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Terence

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Sue Monk Kidd

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

William Boyd

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

A. S. Byatt

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.