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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar

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


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Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

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

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


 

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

Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot

Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken

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

Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller

The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin

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

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 PHOTO

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 more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu

The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

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

Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter

Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy

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

All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein

When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- 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

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

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

It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead

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

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron

The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg

The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy


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