Human Quotes - page 18

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? (Dante Alighieri)
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. View quote
Queen Latifah
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. View quote
Horace Mann
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human? View quote
David Zindell
The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities. View quote
David Zindell
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (Thomas Jefferson)
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. View quote
James Thurber
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. View quote
James Thurber
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. View quote
William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. View quote
William James
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. View quote
William James
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. View quote
Michael Shermer
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. View quote
William Hazlitt
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. (Kim Campbell)
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human. View quote
Graham Greene
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. View quote
William Pitt the Younger
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. View quote
Henry David Thoreau