Human Quotes - page 2

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. (William James)
I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. View quote
George Eliot
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. View quote
John Steinbeck
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. View quote
Anatole France
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. View quote
Albert Einstein
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. (William Hazlitt)
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. View quote
George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
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
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. View quote
Henry James
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. (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