Top 100 Beings Are Quotes
#1. Human beings are inherently social and trusting animals.
Dan Ariely
#2. I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
Genevieve Bujold
#4. She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are.
Katherine Applegate
#5. Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.
Ansel Elgort
#6. There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.
Jane Goodall
#7. Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#8. Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
#9. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all - sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive.
Ilona Andrews
#10. You've read Gandhi-ji? He said that the two worst classes of human beings are doctors and lawyers. Lawyers because they prolong fights and doctors because they cure the symptoms, not the cause. Doctors don't eliminate disease--they perpetuate the existence of doctors.
Karan Mahajan
#11. Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.
E. Jean Carroll
#12. By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
Emile Durkheim
#13. I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
Kevin Spacey
#14. The mole dug its way deep, deep down, under the foundations of the wall. No magical alarm sounded, though I did hit my head five times on a pebble.
Once each on five different pebbles. Not the same pebble five times. Just want to make that clear. Sometimes you human beings are so dense.
Jonathan Stroud
#15. When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope.
Howard Norman
#16. People who look like human beings are not human beings. Strange people are amongst us. We must be careful. Our lives are changing. Our gods are silent. Our ancestors are silent. A great something is going to come from the sky and change the face of the earth.
Ben Okri
#17. Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.
Gore Vidal
#18. Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#19. All human beings are different and should take their right to be different to its ultimate consequences
Paulo Coelho
#20. Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.
Adam B. Ford
#21. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who ... can be divided ... into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden
#23. Human beings are miserable disasters. They make mistakes. Do the wrong things.
Pam Godwin
#24. Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.
Frederick Lenz
#25. [T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Aldous Huxley
#26. We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.
Philip K. Dick
#27. Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.
Frederick Lenz
#28. I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
Ben Stein
#29. The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
Augusto Boal
#30. In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.
Christopher Lloyd
#31. Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.
Nhat Hanh
#32. Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#33. Human beings are no damn good," he said. "We are even worse than animals. We like ... "
He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.
"We like monsters," he said.
Victor LaValle
#34. We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.
Amy Dickinson
#35. I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.
Richard Rohr
#36. We have suffered greatly because of this redefinition of science, not just because of the spiritual effect of nonbelief, but because of the resulting widespread attitude that because there is no design to the universe, we human beings are the masters of our universe.
Rex Russell
#37. [..] we human beings are ready and willing to steal something that does not explicitly reference monetary value - that is, something that lacks the face of a dead president.
Dan Ariely
#38. Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.
Frederick Lenz
#39. For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect - which I don't expect them to be for quite a number of years!
Thomas More
#40. All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings ... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness
Ken Wilber
#41. Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
Dacher Keltner
#42. If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth
#43. Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
Anna Quindlen
#44. Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
Gautama Buddha
#45. Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
Clay Shirky
#46. Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements ... Unlike in business transactions ...
Honeya
#47. It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
Isaac Asimov
#48. The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#49. I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.
John Shelby Spong
#50. I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.
Robin Gerber
#51. ...human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.
Mette Hjort
#52. Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
Gautama Buddha
#53. The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.
Frederick Lenz
#54. Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don't understand, we tamper with until we destroy it.
Suzanne Young
#55. Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van Der Post
#56. Human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts. - Ravissante
Robert Aickman
#57. We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#58. My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless ... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.
Kathe Kollwitz
#59. Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past ... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.
Roger Revelle
#60. The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.
Jose Saramago
#61. Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.
Jack Canfield
#62. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#63. Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#64. Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
John Irving
#65. I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.
Dale Spender
#66. Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.
Timothy Keller
#67. Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.
Sarah Schulman
#68. By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
Gautama Buddha
#69. We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
Sam Kean
#70. I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.
Matt Nathanson
#71. We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.
Traudl Junge
#73. Economic and political factors play themselves out through human agency; and human beings are fundamentally shaped by their cultures.
Francis George
#74. Human beings are not primarily thinking creatures. We are creatures driven by our loves.
Matt Chandler
#75. Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#76. Human beings are still fish.
PZ Myers
#77. I know that human beings are capable of anything.
Ben Okri
#78. To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.
Umberto Eco
#79. What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
Joschka Fischer
#80. I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.
Nicola Sturgeon
#81. Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.
Max Von Sydow
#82. Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
Immanuel Kant
#83. Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.
Erica Jong
#84. You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.
Stephen Breyer
#85. Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.
Ronald Reagan
#86. I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
Elie Wiesel
#88. He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
Elsa Barker
#89. We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
Daniel H. Pink
#91. Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.
David Brin
#92. We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.
Dalai Lama XIV
#93. Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process--which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
Lytton Strachey
#94. The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence.
Dan Simmons
#95. Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
Philip Jose Farmer
#96. Human beings are more alike than different - damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn't have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world." Lilith
Octavia E. Butler
#97. Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions.
Kevin Roberts
#98. Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.
Mark Twain
#99. Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen
Martin Mull
#100. But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
Howard Zinn
