Humans Quotes
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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
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It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
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We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
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We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
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Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.
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Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
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I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
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We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.
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In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own.
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Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
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We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
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You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
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If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.
