Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

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,

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.

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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Ben Carson

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Bill Callahan

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

A. N. Wilson

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Roxane Gay

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Abbas Kiarostami

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

James Cameron

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Adam Hochschild

All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.

Achim Steiner

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Abraham Maslow

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

Anatoly Karpov

To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Dan Ariely

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

Anne Bancroft

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Salman Rushdie

wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.