Human Construct Quotes

#1. The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

John Quincy Adams

#2. The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Albert Einstein

#3. Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#4. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.

Mohsin Hamid

#5. We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Phyllis Bottome

#6. For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Charles Traub

#7. 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

#8. Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Susan Neiman

#9. What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.

H.W. Charles

#10. Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

William E. Paden

#11. It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma ... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

#13. He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people.

Alice Hoffman

#14. Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

John Irving

#15. His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Terry Pratchett

#16. The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.

Joseph Lovering

#17. Paul preaches without shame in his delivery skills because he trusts that the Spirit of God will use the Word the apostle proclaims to shatter the hardness of the human heart in ways no stage technique or philosophical construct can rival.

Bryan Chapell

#18. The whole composition reminds him of something he once had and that he isn't sure if he misses. He does and he doesn't at the same time. It is less the melancholy memory of an abscence and more the comforting evidence that it exists and is still part of the world.

Daniel Galera

#19. Mathematics is a construct/fiction of the human brain. May be a good construct/fiction. But it is not never reality.

Mehmet Kececi

#20. There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race
scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct ... it has a social function, racism.

Toni Morrison

#21. In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

Zachary Taylor

#22. You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

Andrew Forrest

#23. Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

J. Philippe Rushton

#24. It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Henry Miller

#25. Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. Human ingenuity could not construct a cipher which human ingenuity could not solve.

Edgar Allan Poe

#27. Later, Thuran also found it necessary to construct a similar primitive garment, so that, with their bare legs and heavily bearded faces, they looked not unlike reincarnations of two prehistoric progenitors of the human race. Thuran acted like one.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#28. Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

Jon Meacham

#29. We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#30. It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

Steve Goodier

#31. The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

Austin O'Malley

#32. One of the fundamental ways man adapts is to acquire and possess property. It is how he makes his home, finds or grows food, makes clothing, and generally improves his life. Private property is not an artificial construct. It is endemic to human nature and survival.

Mark R. Levin

#33. Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

Gwen Moore

#34. People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Cherie Blair

#35. Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

Sarah Beth Durst