Humanity Quotes

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

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

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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

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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

So great is human weakness, that we must reckon amongst virtuous actions abstention from the evils which we are tempted to commit.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

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

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle - or as a temporary resting place.

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

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

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

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Your job is not to be perfect. Your job is only to be human.

There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer;

into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

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

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

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

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

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

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