Top 100 Humans As Quotes
#1. The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
Stanislav Grof
#2. I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
Albert Brooks
#3. Royal jelly is the substance that worker bees produce and feed to the queen bee. Because the queen bee is the only bee that is fertile within the colony, laying around 2000 eggs per day, this substance is considered to help promote fertility in humans as well.
Sally Moran
#4. Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
Scott Cunningham
#5. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.
Susan Block
#6. No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.
Ammianus Marcellinus
#7. There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
Linda M. Godwin
#8. Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we've known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein.
Percy Julian
#9. God's image ... is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.
Luke Timothy Johnson
#10. We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.
Mark Ruffalo
#11. 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
#12. We humans, as a species, are pretty fucked up. It's
Linnea May
#13. Creating is to humans as flying is to birds. It is our nature, our spirit.
Kevin Ashton
#14. Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
Sylvia Earle
#15. In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.
Michael Pollan
#16. For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Her people, the Half-Lights, were the by-blows of the full-blood Magicians and humans. As such, they were outcasts from both kingdoms. Their magic was too unpredictable for the magicians, and too magic - period - for the humans.
Susan Scott
#18. Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
Frank Herbert
#19. Cats regard humans as warm blooded furniture.
C.L. Bevill
#20. Age cannot determine the power of wisdom and stupid humans as we all are, think; more older the better wisdom.
Santosh Kalwar
#21. Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.
Debbie Macomber
#22. Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.
Michael Leunig
#23. 'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.
Wynter Gordon
#24. To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake.
John N. Gray
#25. There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.
Jessica Fortunato
#26. We are ready to think of humans as MACHINES but we are not ready to think of humans as ANIMALS.
Kirtida Gautam
#27. Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.
Karl Schroeder
#28. Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.
R.N. Prasher
#29. To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world - an ability denied to any other physical being.
Kenan Malik
#30. You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.
Carl F. H. Henry
#31. If he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.
Benjamin Percy
#32. I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
Richard Preston
#33. We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.
Jung Chang
#34. Maybe, she thought with some perversity, it wasn't the gods who controlled the universe, but cats. Cats who toyed with humans as a puppeteer would a marionette.
Kristen Britain
#35. Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
P.G. Wodehouse
#36. Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the "tribe" will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.
Stephen Richards
#38. From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.
Tom Cullen
#39. The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
Isaac Asimov
#40. To be honest, Briec doesn't
consider fights with humans as battles. I think he sees that more as
hunting. Or a snack that runs.
G.A. Aiken
#41. There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
Albert Einstein
#42. The longer I work here, the less faith I have in humans as a species.
R.A. Wilson
#43. It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
Allen West
#44. He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.
Gary L. Thomas
#45. It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#46. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.
Brian Hare
#47. SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.
Peter Singer
#49. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.
Edward Hirsch
#50. If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?
Carl Sagan
#51. Since humans are social animals, you're basically only as good as your reputation.
A.D. Aliwat
#52. No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.
John Scalzi
#54. Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!
Asse Sauga
#55. One of the things Ford Perfect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you've fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?
Douglas Adams
#56. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni
#57. There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
Henry Ward Beecher
#58. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.
Evette Davis
#59. Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.
Daniel H. Wilson
#60. She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.
Larissa Ione
#61. The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
Yann Martel
#62. We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#63. Besides, it left the humans in the Culture free to take care of the things that really mattered in life, such as sports, games, romance, studying dead languages, barbarian societies and impossible problems, and climbing high mountains without the aid of a safety harness.
Iain M. Banks
#64. I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town."
"Depends on the human," Claire said. "As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn't vote him to be in charge.
Rachel Caine
#65. Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.
Bellamy Young
#66. A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference.
Molly Friedenfeld
#67. Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe.
Joe Hill
#68. Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
Gary L. Francione
#69. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
David Whyte
#70. Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
William Kamkwamba
#71. Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.
Stuart J. Russell
#72. Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.
Linda Hogan
#73. If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
Michael Specter
#74. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
Anthony Burgess
#75. It sickens me that humans, who are capable of such goodness and love, can also be the tools of horrifying atrocities, as if possessed by the very demons they claim to hate and fear.
David Estes
#76. The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
William James
#77. We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.
Tian Dayton
#78. Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
Charles Stross
#79. Humans ain't blind about the future.
Most disable one of the senses because they feel daunted to look at it.
It is fear that makes them blind, at the same time feel challenged as well.
Toba Beta
#80. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Nicholas Kristof
#81. It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.
Dalai Lama
#82. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.
Nicholas Kristof
#83. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
Robin Hobb
#84. Hexapodia as the key insight ... I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
Vernor Vinge
#85. Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is."
"I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained.
"He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.
Tamora Pierce
#86. As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
Peter Diamandis
#87. Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
John Lennox
#88. As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
Alan Moore
#89. Trust is a word humans dangle in front of one another as a threat to get what they want. Trust only your heart.
Addison Moore
#90. We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
J.I. Packer
#91. Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Mark Twain
#92. It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. "I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger." Monty
Anne Bishop
#93. We as humans only learn through failure and if you fail along the way, take note of it then move on. This only gets easier as time goes on.
Kathy Stanton
#94. Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.
Rebecca West
#95. Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.
David Graeber
#96. Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.
Benjamin Clementine
#97. A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it.
Anurag Shourie
#98. Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
Ilka Chase
#99. Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
Orlando Bloom
#100. Humans, herself included, held no
interest for her except as living machines, mind-bogglingly intricate, beautiful systems that
somehow housed individuals not quite worthy of the miracle of their physical bodies.
Sherry Thomas
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