Humans Are Unique Quotes

#1. Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)

Andrew Westoll

#2. We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such.

Sherri Saum

#3. As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

Richard Leakey

#4. I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

Svante Paabo

#6. Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

Rene Dubos

#7. Each & every child is unique & special.

Prathima Bhandary

#8. The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#9. At the time, science had declared humans unique, since we were so much better at identifying faces than any other primate. No one seemed bothered by the fact that other primates had been tested mostly on human faces rather than those of their own kind.

Frans De Waal

#10. You Humans really do cripple yourselves with your belief that you all think in unique ways.

Becky Chambers

#11. my brother's cognac and tobacco talk

Charles Dickens

#12. I want to ruin you Freda, in the best way possible.

L. H. Cosway

#13. Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

Roy Baumeister

#15. The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

Jane Goodall

#16. I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Anne Sexton

#17. Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

Joan D. Vinge

#18. Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

Paul Reps

#19. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

Dalai Lama

#20. Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

#21. It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique
our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language
some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Karen Joy Fowler

#22. Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

Daniel Everett

#23. All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#24. Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities.

Frank Herbert

#25. This language implies the covenant is unique to Earth, exclusive to humans, and universally unprecedented.

Cris Putnam

#26. Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

H.P. Lovecraft

#27. Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

Jane Goodall

#28. I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

Jeremy Piven

#29. The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

Buzz Aldrin

#30. We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

Jane Goodall

#31. A convoluted noir infused extravaganza clogged with humans but also a bizarre cluster of unique creatures and provocative human chimeras customized via genetic manipulation and body augmentation, a reverie of alluring cultural ferment and cyberdelic imagery making a grand display

Unknown

#32. Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

David Perlmutter

#33. What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Leroy Hood

#34. The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

Pope John Paul II