Human Quotes

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.