Humans Quotations | Page 3

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

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

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first time. Facing those challenges of radiation, navigation and life support on a months-long trip millions of miles from home would be a perfect learning journey before a Mars trip.

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

I want to be a good human being.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.

I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.