Human Quotes - page 8

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. (Simone Weil)

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Vivienne Westwood

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

Jack Kerouac

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

John Rawls

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Donald Knuth

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. (Stephen Hawking)

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

Susie Bright

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Norman Mailer

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. (Samuel Johnson)

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

George S. Patton

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