Human Quotes
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Irving Langmuir
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
Mackenzie Astin
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
Ian Hacking
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Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
Anne Hathaway
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Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
H. Allen Smith
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To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.
Whitney Houston
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
Ralph Steadman
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Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.
D. Elton Trueblood
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I enjoy just the raw human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards. Twitter is just modern-day gladiatorial combat.
Mike Cernovich
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If it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being.
Anton Myrer
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I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
A. J. Bowen
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
Isaac Barrow
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
Anthony Trollope
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Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
Bellamy Young
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
Ted Dekker
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray
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Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
Gaby Hoffmann
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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
Sam Kean
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
Hamza Yusuf