Humans Quotes

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

God Tris, are you even human?

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

I'm a great lover of human beings.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

I'm only a human being.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

Background for Humans

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

There is only one race ... and it is human!

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

I love the human mind.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

Humans sort of instinctively respond negatively to something that's not true.

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

I am a private human.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.