Human Quotes

• In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Philosophy
  • Performance

• I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Nature
  • Strive

• You can't be human alone.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Human

• If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

  

  William Penn
  • Human
  • Speak

• To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Pain
  • Accept
  • To Be

• Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Television
  • Emanation
  • Vacuity

• Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Positive
  • Inspiration

• I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

  

  David Foreman
  • Disease
  • Fundamental
  • Overpopulation

• 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
  • Change
  • Human
  • Divine

• Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Human
  • Seen
  • Deepest

• We're not trying to say that Patience Cooks is a horrible human being, but that act she committed on March 26, 2005, was horrible. Justice has to be blind. ... Human life has to mean more than that.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Act
  • Committed
  • Horrible

• Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Science
  • Thinks

• For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Life
  • Personal
  • Openness

• The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can for me change this.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Religious
  • Scripture

• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Light
  • Achievement

• I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Face
  • Lord
  • Limbs

• Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Human
  • Madness

• If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Change
  • Human

• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.

  

  Emily Raboteau
  • Feeling
  • Television
  • Laugh

• It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Phenomenon

• Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • Human
  • Building
  • Digital World

• Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Imagination

• Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.

  

  Wilbur L. Creech
  • Human
  • Pride
  • Accomplishment

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