Quotes about human-beings
Lailah Gifty Akita -
There is only One Human race Humankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Living beings have this in common the breath of life.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
Leaders are farmers they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant just prepare to deal with it!
Marty Rubin -
Trying to be more than human one becomes less.
MJ Iba -
I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.
Alfred Korzybski - Manhood of Humanity
to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of the same type and grossness as to treat a cube as a surface because it has surface properties.
Damon Horowitz -
It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. Th
Wendo L. -
Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.
Kate McGahan - Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
I always enjoyed studying languages and I learned from my Master that He wanted humans to be called Human Beings to continually remind them that they are really verbs and that their soul purpose is to BE. I think they tend to forget about this, they are so busy being nouns doing things that won't matter tomorrow.
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
William Donelson -
Science fiction has no ceiling.
Jean Sasson - Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have taught me that discord often erupts from a lack of know
Mehmet Murat ildan -
We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!
Mladen Đorđević - Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong to their species.
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Look,’ said Tyrena. ‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
Eudora Welty -
It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I realized that in plenty of homes where I played with schoolmates, and went to their parties, children lied to their parents and parents lied to their children and to each other. It took me a long time to realize that these very same everyday lies, and the stratagems and jokes and tricks and dares that went with them, were in fact the basis of the scenes I so well loved to hear
Shaka Senghor - Writing My Wrongs
One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.
Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until—bang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating debris.
John Lanchester - Capital
Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.
Duop Chak Wuol -
Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!
Carl Sagan - Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of thesecond cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.
Nick Harkaway - Doctor Who: Keeping Up with the Joneses
Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the future there was a really amazing planet where they'd evolved into people and lived in harmony with a variety of hyper-intelligent bee. Evolution. Thousands and thousands of years of tiny changes could turn little burning sparks of chemistry into people, into monsters and angels and even human beings.
Mladen Đorđević - Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each other. In that merciless, multi-millennial and primal battle, none of them stepped away for an inch. In a craddle, like no man's land, we, the young human beings, find ourselves gazing upon the "toys that glitter". I wanted to believe.
Sunday Adelaja -
The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance
Amelia Boynton Robinson -
Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race.
Alexander Hamilton -
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
G. Willow Wilson - Alif the Unseen
You have such an odd relationship to your environment," mused the man. "Such a paranoid relationship. You seem intent on existing in smaller and smaller spaces, filled with more and more gadgets, with the mistaken impression that this will give you more control over your lives. There's something a little impious about it.""Nothing wrong with gadgets," muttered Alif."No, except that they're not magic," said the man, "and a lot of you seem to believe they should be.
V.C. Andrews - Pearl in the Mist
We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.
José Saramago - Blindness
The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.
Alamvusha -
Maybe life isn't for everyone,Sometimes you do things to start anew life.But the new paths will always bring you back to the old ones or just show a glimpse of it so that you again go through those thousand memories.and no matter how much you try to get rid of the old shoe, Life will bring you to a certain point where you would want to throw off the new shoe and wear the old one back again..and Maybe, maybe you would or maybe you would not.For who knows, We re mysterious beings in these mysterio
Marilynne Robinson -
...when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.
Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls
Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing’s existence until we discern its entire history from developm
Kathy Richardson -
Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ...crushed humans, Readers choice of relevant quotes about MK Gandhi and Satyagraha.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.
Jay Kristoff - Illuminae
No up. No down. No sky. No ground. Just endless dark shot through with tiny spears of sunlight older than you and your entire species stacked end to end. You want to feel small? Spend sixty seconds in a Cyclone's cockpit, chum. Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to.
Elif Shafak -
People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.-Three Daughters of Eve
Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...
Stefan Zweig - The Burning Secret and other stories
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.
Alain de Botton - Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.
George Carlin - Last Words
People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.
Debasish Mridha -
Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the same time, thoughts are the byproducts of complex interactions of these intelligent atoms.
Sharad Vivek Sagar -
Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for us, some who take our trash out, some who keep us safe, some who call us late at night when it’s been a tough day and some who are right by our side the next morning when we are sick, some who smile at us, some who hold the door for us, some who compliment us, who back us, who pray for us. And, they can be friends and family and mentors and relatives and sometimes, in fact, most of the times, even
Jhumpa Lahiri - Unaccustomed Earth
But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!
Sarah Schulman - and the Duty of Repair
Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.
Jonathan Culver -
I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.
Deep Trivedi - The Pulse of Wisdom
In existence, no human being is perfect. Every person has his own unique nature and individual field of expertise. Even those, whom we know as gods were unaware of the knowledge of science all their life. So, instead of paying attention to your shortcomings, concentrate on your talents and harness your potential.
H.E. Davey -
Plants or animals rarely behave in an unnatural manner that’s contrary to their true makeup. Human beings are also natural beings, but at the same time, we’re conscious entities. We therefore have free will and must make the choice not merely to be part of nature, but also to follow faithfully the “laws of nature.
Diego Rivera - My Life
From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.
Oli Anderson - Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie
Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
Sunday Adelaja - Create Your Own Net Worth
Every human being on earth is the same and our very being is crying out for same need.
Oliver Sacks -
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surrounding
Marcel Danesi - X-Rated!: The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture
This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.
Deep Trivedi - The Pulse of Wisdom
We tend to suppress our anger against each other which ultimately leads to big quarrels some day. If two people have been naturally expressing their differences of opinion or having small arguments on regular basis, they will never have resentment or enmity of a lifetime.
Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.
Oli Anderson - Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.
Paul Russell - The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered
For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
C. JoyBell C. -
We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are inviting experiences into our lives, as well. The time that we will spend with the people that we welcome in, will be the time spent on creating experiences in our lives. We are not really taught this. We are not taught that attached to a person is a world, and in that world our feelings and thoughts will mingle with the feelings and thoughts of the other person. Ultimately, we shape our lives dep
Mark Twain -
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?
Humans are supposed to evaluate their lives.
Iben Dissing Sandahl - Capable K
Life consists of many different stories. A person has not just one but countless life stories that weave in between each other and together create exactly that specific life and that specific human being.
Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?
The only wealth every human comes to the earth with is the wealth of time.
Nikki Rowe -
I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.
William Irwin - More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded
Why, Mr. Anderson?, Why, why?. Why do you do it? Why, why get up?.Why keep fighting?. Do you believe you're fighting...for something?.For more than your survival?. Can you tell me what it is?. Do you even know?; Is it freedom?, Or truth?.Perhaps peace?. Could it be for love?Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itse
Kristina Halvorson - Content Strategy for the Web
Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.
Aysha Taryam -
In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.
Brandan Roberston - Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
…even if I discover that I don't particularly like or agree with them, I still can see that they are human beings, just like me. They are not an idea. They are not a concept. They are a real, living and breathing human being who is just trying to figure everything out, just like I am.
Grace Sara - Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you—whether you know it consciously or not.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!
Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.
Niall Williams - History of the Rain
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Is there any holy beings like human beings?
Hermann Hesse - Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in every detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him - for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an inve
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
Aberjhani - and Essays
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.
Dada Bhagwan -
What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].
Grace Sara - Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
We are human beings with divine spirit.
Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity
The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?
Abhijit Naskar - Principia Humanitas
Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.
Seth Godin - Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
What matters is the living have breath!
Abhijit Naskar - Principia Humanitas
Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path of humanism – the path where every pedestrian is simply a human, not a Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Atheist, Mexican, American, Canadian, British, Australian, Russian, Asian, African, European or anything else.
Robin Sacredfire -
Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without wheels. If you don't have these three things, you're either a slave or an animal. Any idea about being social or human has been cleverly associated with these two things, in order to make believe that being a social animal is the ideal to aspire for, especially if such animal is enslaved by a certain amount of ideals promoted by the system that gives him life and cuts it off
Robin Hobb - Blood of Dragons
Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
Osho - Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Love is dangerous because it makes you an individual. And the state and the church . . . they don’t want individuals, not at all. They don’t want human beings, they want sheep. They want people who only look like human beings but whose souls have been crushed so utterly, damaged so deeply, that it seems almost irreparable.