Human Quotes
Sad Quotes about Human

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

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

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy

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

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

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

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

The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

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 greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

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

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy

The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- 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

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

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

For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)

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

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel

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

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

Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous

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

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

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

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

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

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

We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung

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

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

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey

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

Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy