Top 100 Quotes About Humans
#1. The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.
Peg O'Connor
#2. Evil came from within, just as love and beauty did. Evil was the price humans paid for being alive.
Kristina Douglas
#3. You know what, evolution is a myth ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?
Christine O'Donnell
#4. Redford had read somewhere that cats brought their owners dead birds, rodents, and their own toys because they were trying to teach the stupid humans how to hunt, like they did with their own kittens. From the amount of toys Knievel had brought to him, the cat thought he was absolutely useless.
Robin Saxon
#5. It is time to buddle (scrub in water) all that is not illutile (unwash-awayable). Baudelaire said that humans were deluded if they thought they could wash away all their spots with vile tears, but Baudelaire was French and therefore knew nothing about hygiene or shower gel.
Mark Forsyth
#6. Sometimes I think it must have been nice to be alive in the days where everyone knew that Faerie existed. Sure, bands of angry humans sometimes tried to kill us with iron and fire, but nobody questioned where we wanted to celebrate the seasons.
Seanan McGuire
#7. Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.
James Patterson
#9. Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.
Miguel Ruiz
#10. A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Carl Sagan
#11. Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.
Tim Lebbon
#12. It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
Allen West
#13. The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.
Ray Bradbury
#14. Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars ... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Eric Schmidt
#15. Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.
Ariel Levy
#16. People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.
Sue Monk Kidd
#18. He hated mosquitoes. Spiders too, although he liked outer insects, found them fascinating. Like humans, in a way- stupid and sometimes vicious, blinded by need.
Lauren Oliver
#19. The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.
Isaac Asimov
#20. This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and resurrect to eternal life. Either all is God's Great Project, or we may rightly wonder whether anything is God's Great Project. One wonders if we humans will be the last to accept this.
Richard Rohr
#21. Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.
Jeremy Griffith
#23. What if only humans are real, and information is not?
Jaron Lanier
#24. As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
Elizabeth Lesser
#25. If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.
Bill Bryson
#26. The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.
Nathan Lewis
#27. Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
John Green
#28. IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO.
Terry Pratchett
#29. It's horrible, and we humans, just as always, will be the cause. Screw up the water. Fuck up the air. Cut down the trees and shit on the world. We'll call it science. We'll call it sport.
Jonathan Maberry
#30. Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.
Judy Allen
#31. On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.
Bei Dao
#33. By burning through coal and oil deposits, humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens - in most cases hundreds - of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#34. humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.
Rita Mae Brown
#35. Hell, a pig had most humans beat, smarter than small children, and we didn't eat those but maybe we should.
Kelly J. Cogswell
#36. When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
Marcus Aurelius
#37. Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
Matt Haig
#38. If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.
David Wolfe
#39. Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.
Debbie Macomber
#40. With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.
Peter Diamandis
#42. 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
#43. Eventually, humans will die out. Nobody knows when,12 but nothing lives forever.
Randall Munroe
#44. Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.
Dave Eggers
#45. 71-hour Ahmed was not superstitious. He was substitious, which put him in a minority among humans. He didn't believe in the things everyone believed in but which nevertheless weren't true. He believed instead in the things that were true in which no one else believed.
Terry Pratchett
#46. Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.
Rutvik Oza
#47. All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!
Adela Popescu
#48. The first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female.
Kerry Greenwood
#49. I love the machines and I cannot allow them and the humans of Twinmortal to suffer.-Hanshin
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#50. I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.
Terry Pratchett
#52. Humans were temporal. They aged and, eventually, died. And while she could have dwelled on her tendency to morbidly fixate on this quality, she chose instead, in that moment, to let it go . . . To let it rise like the sun. A dancing veil of light being lifted off the water.
Marilyn Brant
#53. Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Jaron Lanier
#54. When we force something to fit where it doesn't belong, it breaks. When surrounded by people who can't appreciate our beauty, humans essentially do the same.
Kayla Krantz
#55. Spirit is the source of life. Humans are the manifestation of spirit.
Debasish Mridha
#56. My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
Christopher Bollen
#57. Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we touch turns to matter.
Nick Herbert
#58. I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church ...
John Malkovich
#59. When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. We are killing off species at the rate of about one per day. It is estimated that humans are driving species to extinction at least a thousand times faster than the otherwise natural rate.
Bill Nye
#61. Humans - far from being a dominant species, were regarded as one of the most unstable and untrustworthy, being at the mercy of what most of the Unity's people regarded as a dangerously prevalent sex drive.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#62. Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.
Emma Forrest
#63. Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.
Aaron Burdett
#64. Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don't fully put into use their human qualifications.
Sunday Adelaja
#65. In prayer humans speak and God listens. In revelation God speaks to human hearers. In this way scripture and prayer feed the dialogue between humanity and God.
Thomas C. Oden
#66. A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
Terry Brooks
#67. It's healthy to ditch class now and then. To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.
Stephenie Meyer
#68. Humans time and again demonstrated they were capable of perpetrating crimes as vile and gruesome as any vampire.
Rebeka Harrington
#69. And the attraction burns fire amongst us and the spark is lit. We humans just add fuel to the fire." Lucas whispered behind her.
Amber
#70. No matter how evolved humans think they are, we still have the same flight-or-fight instincts of our caveman ancestors.
Ernessa T. Carter
#71. I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
Olivia Newton-John
#72. When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#73. In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
Michael Shermer
#75. Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
Dan Chaon
#76. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
Nancy Pearcey
#77. It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.
Liu Cixin
#78. All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#79. Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.
-Aras
Karen Traviss
#80. The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
Lester Bangs
#81. Was our suffering of any consequence to their consciences? Did they see us as victims> Or were we simply nameless, faceless humans who were in their way?
Izzeldin Abuelaish
#82. The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
C.S. Lewis
#83. All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
Rufus Wainwright
#84. I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
Eric Schmidt
#85. This is the problem with illusions: They form easy enough, but once they fall apart, they're impossible to put back together. They're like humans in that way.
Hugh Howey
#86. Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
Jim Fowler
#87. Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
Alan Lightman
#88. The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
David Smith
#89. Breath, Myrnin said. I'm not much for it myself, but I hear it's quite good for humans.
-Myrnin.
Rachel Caine
#90. A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don't also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?
Roman Payne
#91. We all humans are seed and gods are trees..and every seed have capacity to be tree
Arya Vidhan
#92. I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.
Feist
#93. All the three monotheist religions (Jewish, Christianity and Islam)claims that their God (Yahweh, God and Allah) created humans in a similar way: this indicates that creationist have not yet established the creator.
Ajay Kansal
#94. Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#95. Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#96. As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines, but rather feeling machines that think.
Brene Brown
#97. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant
Leonard Nimoy
#98. I've found it's never the animals you have to worry about, Miki. It's the humans.
Shelly Laurenston
#99. One thing that never changed among humans: there were always those who wanted to get something for nothing. It was what kept hell in business.
Richelle Mead
#100. Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.
Chuck Klosterman
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