Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
~ Joseph Stalin
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
~ Indira Gandhi
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
~ Denis Diderot
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
~ Francis Bacon
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
~ Thomas Paine
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
~ David Bohm
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
~ Muhammad Yunus
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
~ Xenophanes
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
~ Simone Weil
Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
~ Alex Berenson
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
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
~ Elie Wiesel
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
~ Francis Of Assisi
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
~ Tim Wise
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
~ Benny Hinn
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
~ Charles Babbage
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
~ Horace Mann
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
~ Jean Piaget
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
~ John Charles Polanyi
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
~ Paul Kalanithi
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
~ Walter Benjamin
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
~ John Burnside
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I have appeared on 'The Dr. Oz show' and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.
~ Joel Fuhrman
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
~ Alan Bennett
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
~ John Jewel
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
~ Emily Dickinson
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
~ Douglas Adams
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
~ Helen Keller
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
~ Robert Duvall
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
~ William Gibson
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
~ Herbert Read
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
~ Johan Huizinga
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
~ Jacques Lacan
