Human Quotes

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.