Human Quotes - page 4

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. View quote
François Mauriac
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. View quote
Saul Bellow
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. View quote
Ivan Illich
Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know lessen human beings of which they know nothing. View quote
Voltaire
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless. View quote
Dean Karnazes
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. (Indira Gandhi)
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. View quote
Horace Mann
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. View quote
Horace Mann
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. View quote
James Madison
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. View quote
William James
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. View quote
Thomas Paine
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. (Harold Wilson)
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. View quote
George Soros
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. View quote
George Soros
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. View quote
Norman Cousins
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves... is what I call hell. View quote
André Malraux
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