Quotes on Humans

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.