Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Wayne Shorter

Your humanity is your instrument.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Hahnemann

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Wesley Morris

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

William Cowper

I am out of humanity's reach.

Wayne Dyer

From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen.

William Graham Sumner

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Tim Berners-Lee

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Thomas Ligotti

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Goodwin

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Thomas Keating

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Victor Hugo

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Russell Simmons

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Ronald Reagan

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Rumi

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.

Susan Cain

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Sonny Terry

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Steve Jobs

Combine science and humanities.

Peace Pilgrim

Walk with me, but don't follow me blindly. Hold fast to the truth, not to my garments. My body is merely a clay structure; today it is here, tomorrow it shall be gone. If you attach yourself to me today, what are you going to do tomorrow when I am not with you? Attach yourself to God, attach yourself to humanity, only then will you be closer to me.

Peter Ustinov

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Rabindranath Tagore

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Li Hongzhi

Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

Lewis Mumford

The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

Lewis Thomas

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Viktor E. Frankl

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Vaclav Havel

It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word.

Susan Sullivan

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.