Top 100 Human Body Quotes
#1. Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
Khalil Gibran
#2. As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
Quentin Blake
#3. The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
Auguste Rodin
#4. Hope.
If I had to explain to someone what part of the human body carries the spirit I would say it is the same part that carries hope. You can't survive without hope.
Cassia Leo
#5. I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
Morarji Desai
#6. What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
D.H. Lawrence
#8. God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
Vikas Swarup
#9. In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
Bruce Lipton
#10. Far from being the rock or island in the Simon and Garfunkel song, it turns out that the best metaphor to describe the human body is 'sponge.
Rick Smith
#11. Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#12. What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.
Lee Labrada
#13. Do not confuse love with lust; they throb in two entirely different zones of the human body.
Sindhu S.
#14. In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.
Robert Fogel
#15. For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
David Cronenberg
#16. It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Caterina Scorsone
#17. Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.
Roman Romanenko
#18. But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
Voltaire
#19. The light of the sacred prostitute penetrates to the heart of this darkness ... she is the consecrated priestess, in the temple, spiritually receptive to the feminine power flowing through her from the Goddess, and at the same time joyously aware of the beauty and passion in her human body.
Marion Woodman
#20. I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
Andie MacDowell
#21. Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.
Deepak Chopra
#22. Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
Henry Ward Beecher
#23. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them
George Washington
#24. If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
Mary Roach
#25. Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses ...
Freya Stark
#26. Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
Corrie Ten Boom
#27. The human body appreciates peace of mind. Things that are disturbing to us have a very bad effect upon our health. This shows that the whole structure of our health is such that it is suited to an atmosphere of human affection.
Dalai Lama XIV
#28. God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Jimmy Carter
#29. The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
Terence McKenna
#30. There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.
Joel Kinnaman
#31. Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.
Frances Mayes
#32. When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.
Sathya Sai Baba
#33. There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.
Andres Iniesta
#34. The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#35. Bones were not strong just because they were the strongest thing a human body had.
Nick Harkaway
#36. No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
Olive Schreiner
#37. All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
#38. Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
Wassily Kandinsky
#39. You are a spiritual being with human body. Well-being, love, and kindness are your guiding principles.
Debasish Mridha
#40. We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being.
Anthony Esolen
#41. It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.
Roger Bannister
#42. Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
David Cronenberg
#43. Feeble human body, hey?
Mikael said it in the way that he had, that made everything sound slightly naughty and sexual. I aimed three quick jabs at his head, which wiped the innuendo off his face.
Melanie Cusick-Jones
#44. The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.
Robert Pinsky
#45. The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.
Kristin Gore
#46. There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster.
Samuel Taylor
#47. In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara De Angelis
#48. A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.
John Eudes
#49. When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
K. Anders Ericsson
#50. The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
S. Jay Olshansky
#51. Men had sought beauty in many forms - in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space.
Arthur C. Clarke
#52. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
#53. The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
Norman Cousins
#54. Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
Fidel Castro
#55. I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.
Bob Proctor
#56. The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.
Norman O. Brown
#57. Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
Leon Trotsky
#58. The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.
Bill Gates
#59. He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.
Peter Straub
#60. I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.
Alastair Reynolds
#61. Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.
Janet Morris
#62. The human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#64. Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.
Hugo Black
#65. I remembered watching Slim Goodbody on TV, an odd white guy with a small Afro who wore a full-body leotard with the inside of the human body painted on it, which made him look as if he'd been flayed alive. He
Jenny Lawson
#66. In order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body
Jose Saramago
#68. We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ... a much more integrative experience.
Simon McBurney
#69. The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#70. Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.
Lisa Scottoline
#71. I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.
Richard Griffiths
#72. To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.
Gretel Ehrlich
#73. Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
Tacitus
#74. When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.
David Eagleman
#75. You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.
Rory Freedman
#76. The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.
Dan Brown
#77. The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#78. I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
Bayard Taylor
#79. The human body is like a piece of fabric. No matter how well one cares for it, it frays as it ages.
Helene Wecker
#80. Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.
Lance Morrow
#81. Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
M.C. Escher
#82. biological, instinctual, unconscious response to threat or violation. And it can actually be the very thing that saves your life. In freezing, the human body enters an altered state in which little to no pain is experienced.
Rachael Maddox
#83. If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
Antony Tudor
#84. The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#85. She slammed into an invisible wall and flew back once more, landing on her back. She lay sprawled on the ground, trying to shift into her leopard form. But her enhancing Spirit held her firmly in the human body.
A.O. Peart
#87. The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
#88. In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Don't think you can ... know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything ... you can always control something. Your body - Use it ... Amuse it ... because one day ... you're going to lose it.
Jeff Hardy
#90. The human body is always treated as an image of society.
Mary Douglas
#91. I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.
Don McCullin
#92. If anything is sacred,
the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman
#93. If person have excuse for Every bad thing which use to do with others.than its wrong soul in human body
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#94. Every human body consists of about 10 quadrillion cells, but about 100 quadrillion bacterial cells. They are, in short, a big part of us. From the bacteria's point of view, of course, we are a rather small part of them.
Bill Bryson
#95. All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#96. Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.
Deepak Chopra
#97. I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.
Ellie Goulding
#98. Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
Naguib Mahfouz
#99. The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
Andrew Weil
#100. Here are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body
your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.
Jeremy Narby
