Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Cynthia Ozick

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Tim White

The key here is the sequences. It's about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution.

The justice system is a human system and it is fallible.

The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you don't.

These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

Carolyn See

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

Eric Hoffer

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Eric Hoffer

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Philip James Bailey

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Philip James Bailey

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Peter Diamandis

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

Peter Drucker

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Peter Akinola

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Peggy Noonan

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

Peg Bracken

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

Paulo Coelho

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Paulo Coelho

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Marisha Pessl

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Marianne Moore

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Megan McCafferty

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

Max Lucado

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

May Sarton

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Max Eastman

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Euwe

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Maureen O'Hara

To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

Matthew Scully

Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open our hearts to that most impractical of hopes in which all creation speaks as one.

Matthew Henry

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Matthew Henry

Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.