Human Quotes - page 11

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. (Lin Yutang)
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. View quote
Thomas Merton
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. (James A. Michener)
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. View quote
Václav Havel
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. View quote
Václav Havel
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. View quote
Jane Austen
If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward. View quote
Li Hongzhi
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. View quote
William Osler
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. View quote
José Saramago
Custom is the great guide to human life. View quote
David Hume
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. View quote
Charles Lamb
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. (Dylan Moran)
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. View quote
Helen Keller
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. View quote
John Steinbeck