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To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
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Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around.
Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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