Human Quotes - page 3

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. (Amartya Sen)
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. View quote
Neil Armstrong
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it. View quote
Aaron Copland
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. (Iris Murdoch)
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. View quote
Kiran Desai
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. View quote
Gloria Steinem
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. View quote
James Baldwin
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. View quote
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. View quote
Al Franken
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. View quote
George Orwell
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. View quote
Václav Havel
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. (Walter Bagehot)
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. View quote
Edward de Bono
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. View quote
Havelock Ellis
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