Human Quotes - page 7

Human nature is above all things lazy. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. View quote
José Martí
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. View quote
Germaine Greer
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. View quote
U Thant
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. View quote
Graham Greene
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. (Tennessee Williams)
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. View quote
J. P. Donleavy
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. View quote
Norman Cousins
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. View quote
Bolesław Prus
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. View quote
Herbert Spencer
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. (James Frazer)
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. View quote
Joan Miró
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. View quote
Freeman Dyson
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. View quote
Thornton Wilder
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico