Human Quotes

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.