Humans Quotes

• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

  

  William James
  • Philosophy
  • Pursuit
  • Sublime

• Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Important
  • Space
  • Persons

• No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

  

  William Glasser
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • Competence

• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Balance
  • Distance
  • Protect

• I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Done
  • Moon
  • Destination

• If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Different
  • Loss
  • Possibility

• Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • War
  • Future
  • Robot

• Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Wine
  • Blood
  • Witches

• I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Pieces
  • Property
  • Goods

• Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • World
  • Earth
  • Kind

• Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Body

• In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • History
  • Result
  • Crisis

• The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • May
  • Viruses
  • Transmissbility

• One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Humans
  • Tradition
  • Thematic

• I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Humans
  • Exposed

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Technology
  • Imagination
  • Force

• For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Work
  • Force
  • Produce

• Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

  

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Character
  • Industry
  • Perseverance

• If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Way
  • Picture
  • Noble

• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Question
  • Might
  • Capacity

• My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Body
  • Able
  • Legs

• And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • People
  • Remember
  • Justice

• The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Nature
  • Praise
  • Critical

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