Humans famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
-- A. C. Cuza -
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
-- A. E. Housman -
No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
-- A. S. Byatt -
I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
-- Aaron Paul -
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
-- Abba Eban -
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
-- Abby Sunderland -
People have become educated, but have not become human.
-- Abdul Sattar Edhi -
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
-- Abraham Maslow -
You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
-- Adi Da -
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.
-- Adolfo Perez Esquivel -
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
-- Agatha Christie -
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
-- Ai Weiwei -
If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
-- Al-Ghazali -
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
-- Alan Lightman -
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
-- Alan Watts -
Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.
-- Albert Brooks -
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
-- Albert Camus -
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
-- Albert Camus -
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
-- Albert Camus -
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
-- Albert Camus -
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
-- Albert Einstein -
If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.
-- Albert Ellis -
The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.
-- Albert J. Nock -
You never know the limit of a human being.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?
-- Alesha Dixon -
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.
-- Alexa Chung -
In my world, I am one of the luckiest humans alive.
-- Alexander Dale Oen -
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
-- Alexander Pope -
Some things are beyond human understanding.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
-- Alexandre Vinet -
It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
-- Alfred Adler -
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings
-- Alfred Marshall -
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
-- Alfred Marshall -
Right human relations is the only true peace.
-- Alice Bailey -
As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
-- Alison Gopnik -
All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova
-- Allan Sandage -
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.
-- Alva Noe -
Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
-- Alvar Aalto -
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.
-- Amy Dickinson -
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
-- Anais Nin -
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
-- Anders Petersen -
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
-- Andreas Gursky -
Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all
-- Andrew Bird -
I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
-- Andrew Garfield -
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
-- Andrew Weil -
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
-- Ann Druyan -
Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
-- Anna Lindh -
You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
-- Anne Bogart -
Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
-- Anne Carson -
You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.
-- Anne Stuart -
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
-- Annie Dillard -
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
-- Annie Lennox -
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
-- Anthony Trollope -
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.
-- Anwar Sadat -
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
-- Armstrong Williams -
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
-- Arthur Miller -
I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
-- Arundhati Roy -
It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
-- Ashley Montagu -
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
-- Astro Teller -
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
-- Augusto Boal -
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
-- Avery Brooks
