Human Quotes

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.