Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Thomas Jefferson

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

Robert Herrick

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

Rick Pitino

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

Taylor Caldwell

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Sathya Baba

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

Edward Burnett Tylor

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

Edward Bond

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Edward Bond

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Edward Albee

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake...

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Eckhart Tolle

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

Eckhart Tolle

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is always the secure who are humble.

Holly Hunter

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Jonathan Kellerman

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Jonathan Cain

I remain God's humble servant.

Jonathan Edwards

All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

Jonathan Edwards

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Jonathan Edwards

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonas Salk

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Jonah Lehrer

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Jon Stewart

Thus, I've created humour.

Jon Stewart

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.

Jon Stewart

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

Jon Miller

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Katha Pollitt

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Julie Delpy

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

Lenny Kravitz

I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.