Human Quotes

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

~ John Berger

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

~ Abraham Maslow

Envy is human nature.

~ Monica Bellucci

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

~ Alex Campbell

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

~ Denis Diderot

Human nature is above all things lazy.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

~ Isaac Asimov

Nature is not human hearted.

~ Lao Tzu

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

~ George Mason

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

~ Joni Mitchell

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

~ Jane Smiley

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

~ Huston Smith

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

~ Paul Ricœur

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

~ Robinson Jeffers

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

~ Albert Einstein

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

~ Mae Jemison

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

~ E. O. Wilson

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.

~ Buzz Aldrin

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

~ Jeff Bezos

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

~ Mike Pence

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

~ Alexander Pope

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.

~ Ahmed Zewail

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

~ John Sulston

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

~ Marco Rubio

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

~ Jack Nicholson

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

~ Ada Lovelace

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

~ Nathan Deal

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

~ Maria Montessori

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

~ H. G. Wells

There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.

~ Monica Johnson

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

~ Lewis Carroll

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

~ James Allen

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

~ Daniel Nathans

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

~ Elizabeth Edwards

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

~ Katrina Kaif

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

~ Jean Anouilh

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

~ Socrates

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

~ David Mitchell

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

~ Billy Graham