Human Quotes

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

The great variability of all the external differences between the races of man, likewise indicates that they cannot be of much importance; for if important, they would long ago have been either fixed and preserved, or eliminated.

I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope & believe what he can.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

Who leaves behind all human bonds, And has cast off the bonds of heaven, Detached from all bonds everywhere: He is the one I call a brahmin.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.