Top 92 Human Endeavor Quotes
#1. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
William S. Burroughs
#2. There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#3. Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.
Scott Carpenter
#4. Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
Samuel Gompers
#5. In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#6. The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
Chris Hedges
#7. If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet
Max Beerbohm
#10. As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#11. Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause. Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.
Barbara Kingsolver
#12. Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...
Andrew Lo
#13. However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.
H. David Burton
#14. ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified ... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
Albert Camus
#15. Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#16. Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor ... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.
Emma Goldman
#17. It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#18. The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol
#19. In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
Bill Gates
#20. Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#21. Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#22. The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty
#23. Each component of this trinity of human endeavor - science, religion, and art - lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#24. I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.
Bobbi Gibb
#25. We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context - in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#26. Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#27. For our race to achieve the true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophies proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious strivings for art.
Dan Simmons
#28. The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.
Gustave De Molinari
#29. The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. Staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond "awesome" and "sucks," which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough . . .
Thomas Pynchon
#31. After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
John Huston
#32. All human endeavor, all human civilization, is the act of solving collective action problems. Should we put out our own fires, or should we have a fire department? Should we build roads, or should we hack our way through the woods from one factory to another?
Nick Hanauer
#33. Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Albert Einstein
#34. In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.
Jon Krakauer
#35. In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Ben Bernanke
#36. I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
Abraham Verghese
#37. Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
Avital Ronell
#38. The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Albert Einstein
#39. My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
Jerry Seinfeld
#40. Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.
Mario Pei
#42. Integrity is the greatest commodity that pays the highest salary in any human endeavor. Integrity really pays
Michael Quansah
#43. The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.
Rainn Wilson
#44. To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.
Leo Buscaglia
#45. The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while there is a reality that science allows us to approach the process of science is a human endeavor.
Brian Switek
#46. But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God.
H.R. Rookmaaker
#48. No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground.
Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
#49. I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker
#50. Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.
Edwin Conklin
#51. All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
Harry S. Truman
#52. Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.
Abhijit Naskar
#53. To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. Nobody can ... It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
Rick Hamlin
#54. Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
Colin Powell
#55. Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
Barbara Sher
#56. No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.
Samuel G. Blythe
#58. Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Kinky Friedman
#59. A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
Terry Orlick
#60. Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.
Ted Conover
#61. In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.
Joan Rivers
#62. I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together ... Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
Mary Shelley
#63. Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.
Kamal Ravikant
#64. Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#65. There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. ( ... ) However bad life may seem ( ... ) While there's life, there is hope.
Stephen Hawking
#66. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.
Paul Gibbons
#67. Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
George S. Patton
#68. A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
John L. Phillips
#69. For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.
Bill Gates
#70. All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.
William Butler Yeats
#71. It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.
Joseph P. Bradley
#72. We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
Frantz Fanon
#73. Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.
Martin Heidegger
#74. The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#75. Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#76. It has long been a matter of serious moment that for decades we have studied the various peoples of the world and those who live as our neighbors as objects of missionary endeavor and enterprise without being at all willing to treat them either as brothers or as human beings.
Howard Thurman
#77. When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
Jay Mohr
#78. Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis
#79. I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Nate Silver
#80. Reading the Bible for spiritual transformation is not a one-sided endeavor: it is a dialogue of human spirit and Holy Spirit.
Richard J. Foster
#81. According to the prevailing view human sexual life consists essentially in an endeavor to bring one's own genitals into contact with those of someone of the opposite sex.
Sigmund Freud
#82. Expert chess playing, for example, was once thought to epitomize human intellection. In the view of several experts in the late fifties: "If one could devise a successful chess machine, one would seem to have penetrated to the core of human intellectual endeavor.
Nick Bostrom
#83. Nevertheless, the human brain, which survives by hoping from one second to another, will always endeavor to put off the moment of truth. Moist
Terry Pratchett
#84. Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
Arthur Balfour
#85. To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
Gary Steiner
#86. There is a dramatic conflict in what is commonly called the human sciences. Should we postulate a typical human reality and describe its psychic modalities, taking into account only the imperfections, or should we not rather make a constant, solid endeavor to understand man in an everchanging light?
Frantz Fanon
#87. I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Ellen Ochoa
#88. There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#89. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#90. Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education.
Rudolf Steiner
#91. Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.
Alex Epstein
#92. The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
Bill Bryson
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