Human Quotes - page 13

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. (Erma Bombeck)
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. View quote
Henry Adams
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. View quote
Warren Buffett
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. View quote
André Gide
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. View quote
Ann Landers
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. View quote
Theodore Dreiser
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. (Dan Quayle)
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
Victor Hugo
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. View quote
Evan Esar
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. View quote
Robertson Davies
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. (Havelock Ellis)
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. View quote
Erich Fromm
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg