220 Human Quotes

Following is our list of human quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about human all too human.

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Famous Human Quotes

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. — Daniel D. Palmer

Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body. — Mike Mentzer

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. — Italo Calvino

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man! - Joseph Merrick

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man! — Joseph Merrick

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. — Mahatma Gandhi

Humanity is the equity of the heart. — Confucius

To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment. — Jacque Fresco

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. — Primo Levi

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. — John Trudell

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. - Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. - Doug Larson

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. — Doug Larson

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. — Albert Einstein

Short Human Quotes

  • We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key. — Kendrick Lamar
  • The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Thomas Huxley
  • Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — Immanuel Kant
  • I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. — Joseph Stalin
  • Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein
  • Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical. — Amartya Sen
  • I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity. — Thomas Sankara
  • People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James

Human Image Quotes

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. - Zakir Naik quote

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. — Zakir Naik

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Aldous Huxley quote

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley

There is only one race, the human race. - Robert Sobukwe quote

There is only one race, the human race. — Robert Sobukwe

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. - Alexander Hamilton quote

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. — Alexander Hamilton

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. - Thomas Hobbes quote

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. - Mark Twain quote

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. - Mary Mcleod Bethune quote

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. - Antonio Gaudi quote

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi quote

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. — Indira Gandhi

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. - Pythagoras quote

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. - Charles Bukowski quote

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. — Charles Bukowski

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. - Milton H. Erickson quote

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. - Ibn Khaldun quote

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. — Ibn Khaldun

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt quote

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein quote

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. - El Lissitzky quote

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. - Evan Esar quote

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. - Ludwig Wittgenstein quote

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. - Leonardo da Vinci quote

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo da Vinci

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. - Augustus quote

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. — Augustus

Human quote I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

We Are All Human Quotes

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. — Wilma Rudolph

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. — Muhammad Ali

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all. — Vandana Shiva

Human quote All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. — Dale Carnegie

Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Human quote Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity. — Thomas Sankara

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off. — John Trudell

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings. — Chogyam Trungpa

Human All Too Human Quotes

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else. — Maimonides

You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can’t avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be guaranteed in advance to turn out painlessly and well. — Oliver Burkeman

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often. — Farley Mowat

Human quote It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice. — Arundhati Roy

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial. — Dan Brown

Human quote Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. — Charlie Chaplin

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. — Marilyn Monroe

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people? — Charles Eisenstein

Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Good Human Quotes

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world—everything is hidden in you. — Hildegard of Bingen

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen Elizabeth II

Good memories are our second chance at happiness. — Queen Elizabeth II

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Human quote The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a c
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. — Alan Turing

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. — Anne Frank

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata

What Makes Us Human Quotes

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love. — Henri Nouwen

Marketing is fundamental to what makes us human. Marketing is not solely about selling chewing gum, cars, cellphones, and tourist packages. Everything in life involves the process of marketing something to someone. — Gad Saad

Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human. — Matt Bomer

Human quote The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue. — Ellen DeGeneres

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. — Kit Williams

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human. — Gad Saad

Human quote Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars. — Richard Branson

Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human. — Bernie Ecclestone

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human. — Masashi Kishimoto

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life. — Jonathan Franzen

No Longer Human Quotes

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man. — Fridtjof Nansen

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — Thomas A. Edison

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. — Ida B. Wells

Human quote When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. — Maria Montessori

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. — Caroline Myss

Civilization no longer means capital accumulation per se; rather, it means what capital accumulation allows humans to achieve, flourishing and the freedom to seek greater meaning in life when their basic needs are assured and the most immediate dangers are under control. — Saifedean Ammous

Human quote One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.
One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. — William Gibson

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. — C. S. Lewis

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family. — Duane Elgin

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. — Jacques Ellul

Dog And Human Quotes

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. — Mark Twain

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - Joseph Wood Krutch

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Human quote The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog. — Charles M. Schulz

The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. — Erik Naggum

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. — Gary Larson

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky — John Grogan

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog. — Cesar Millan

His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog. — Gene Hill

Human Will Quotes

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. — Bob Marley

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. — Cyrus the Great

Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity. — Prince Ea

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain. — Saadi Shirazi

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.' — Chinua Achebe

Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity. — Fela Kuti

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become. — Alphonse Mucha

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin

Being Human Quotes

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. — Malcolm X

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. — Winston Churchill

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. — Thurgood Marshall

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

Human Spirit Quotes

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other. — Rudolf Steiner

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude. — Rene Descartes

I believe the human spirit is indomitable. — Monty Oum

Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity. — T.L. Osborn

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. — Montesquieu

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. — Baron de Montesquieu

I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing. — Ellen G. White

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. — Haile Selassie

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. — Charles Spurgeon

Human Freedom Quotes

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. — Phillis Wheatley

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being. — Pope John Paul II

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS! — Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man 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. — Viktor E. Frankl

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom. — James Connolly

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. — Frederick Douglass

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around. — Russell Means

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create. — Vandana Shiva

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Human Happiness Quotes

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. — Oscar Wilde

If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. — K. Pattabhi Jois

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year. — Dalai Lama

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas

Human Development Quotes

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it. — Amartya Sen

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment — David Attenborough

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. — Malcolm Muggeridge

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development. — Rajiv Gandhi

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education. — Rudolf Steiner

Human Knowledge Quotes

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. — Adi Shankara

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. — Al-Ghazali

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. — Paulo Freire

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. — Leo Tolstoy

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it. — Marcus Garvey

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry. — Al-Shafi‘i

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. — Louis Pasteur

Real Human Quotes

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. - Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. — Jimmy Carter

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace — Kofi Annan

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that's real peace of mind. I don't have to worry about that when I'm walking around in the world. — Jocko Willink

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. — Edward O. Wilson

Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey

Human History Quotes

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity. — Fidel Castro

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. — Edward Said

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond. — Haile Selassie

Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history. — John G. Lake

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results. — Niccolo Machiavelli

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy. — H. P. Lovecraft

Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. — Vida Goldstein

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight. — Igor Sikorsky

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. - Fyodor Dostoevsky quote

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. - John C. Maxwell quote

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. — John C. Maxwell

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. - Emily Dickinson quote

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. — Emily Dickinson

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. - Rei Kawakubo quote

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. — Rei Kawakubo

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud quote

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. — Sigmund Freud

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. - Kathrine Switzer quote

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. - Mary Baker Eddy quote

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need. — Mary Baker Eddy

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict quote

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James quote

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. - Coretta Scott King quote

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. — Coretta Scott King

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. - Samuel Butler quote

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler

One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it. - Morgan Freeman quote

One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it. — Morgan Freeman

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. - William Blake quote

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. — William Blake

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward De Bono quote

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward De Bono

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. - Henri Poincare quote

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. — Henri Poincare

Human dignity is more precious than prestige. - Claude McKay quote

Human dignity is more precious than prestige. — Claude McKay

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. - Walter Rauschenbusch quote

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. — Walter Rauschenbusch

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. - Michael Pollan quote

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. — Michael Pollan

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