Humans Quotes - page 6

If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate. View quote
Niklas Luhmann
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome. View quote
Dave Eggers
The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers. View quote
Konrad Zuse
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. View quote
John Green (author)
I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. View quote
Kate Bush
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. View quote
Frank Herbert
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex. (Ben Stein)
LISP has been jokingly described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity. View quote
C. S. Lewis
If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. View quote
Zakir Naik
We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination. View quote
George Moore (novelist)
Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
So many humans. So many colors. View quote
Markus Zusak
I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death. View quote
Markus Zusak
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate. (Markus Zusak)
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death) View quote
Markus Zusak
I am haunted by humans. View quote
Markus Zusak
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. View quote
Markus Zusak
Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. View quote
Markus Zusak