Top 95 Quotes About What Makes Us Human
#1. This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.
Alan D. Eames
#2. The TELL-TALE BRAIN A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human V. S. RAMACHANDRAN
V.S. Ramachandran
#3. What makes us human is not the recognition of fear but the ability to overcome it.
Kevin Colovos
#4. I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.
Ricky Gervais
#5. The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.
Winston Damarillo
#6. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#7. Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
Michael Greger
#9. It still hurts, but life is supposed to hurt. Too many people think life is supposed to be easy and perfect all the time. But there is always some hurt. It's part of being alive. You have to accept it's a piece that every single person carries. It's what makes us human.
Katie Kacvinsky
#10. Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The
Luke Dormehl
#11. I'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry
Ntozake Shange
#12. You see, young Dr. Marion, that's what makes us human. We always want more.
Abraham Verghese
#13. Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
Bryce Courtenay
#15. Life sucks, there's no way around that. But you never know when the good might come. Maybe it won't, but you shouldn't count it out. And besides, that's what makes us human, right? Even if it seems impossible, even when there is no point, we fight to the death with smiles on our faces.
Kyle West
#16. We've now become the spectators of our own mutation.
We may not die human anymore.
But what makes us human?
Natasha Tsakos
#17. What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.
Sarah Parcak
#18. We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.
Damon Knight
#19. What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#20. Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
Veronica Roth
#21. Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.
Gerhard Richter
#22. Welcome to the land of the living sweetheart. Everyone's messed up. It's what makes us human.
Rachel Van Dyken
#23. Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.
John Scalzi
#24. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
Bill Jensen
#25. We all have scars & deep pain. It's
what makes us human & vulnerable.
Anshuma Sharma
#26. How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?"
"The Creator didn't make love conditional," Jona said. "Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.
Peter V. Brett
#27. Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.
Ellen DeGeneres
#28. We all have scars & deep pain. It's
what makes us human & vulnerable.
Anshuma Sharma
#29. We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.
Aline Ohanesian
#30. The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey.
Richard Preston
#31. Mindfulness is an inborn trait, a birthright. It is, one could argue, what makes us human.
Dan Harris
#32. What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.
Donald Johanson
#33. Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz
#34. What makes us human is not only the fact that we suffer, but also because we aspire to be happy." - Ashutosh in the Book "Songs of the Mist
Shashi
#35. Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That's what makes us human.
Matt Bomer
#36. It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#37. As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Nash Grier
#38. We're obsessed with filling in the blank for a Mad Libs line that goes: "_ makes us human." Why? Scratch and sniff the "what makes us human" obsession and you get a strong whiff of something that could fit into that blank: our insecurity.
Carl Safina
#39. Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
Jan Koum
#40. Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.
Miguel
#41. Sacrifice for a worthy cause means something. It's the best of what makes us human.
Heather Anastasiu
#42. What matters is not the features of our character or the drives and instincts per se, but rather the stand we take toward them. And the capacity to take such a stand is what makes us human beings.
Viktor E. Frankl
#43. None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.
Steven James
#44. Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
Irvin D. Yalom
#45. People are not totally good or bad, black or white - unless we are talking of evil psychos.
We, human beings, are somewhere between angels and demons. That is what makes us, human beings, lovely imperfect.
Cristiane Serruya
#46. To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.
Kathleen Depperschmidt
#47. Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
Richard Branson
#48. What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
Jane Goodall
#49. I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
Zeresenay Alemseged
#50. When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced.
From the short story What Makes Us Human.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#51. History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'. For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.
Saul Bellow
#52. Music, I would argue, is a part of what makes us human.
David Byrne
#53. Defining yourself as a victim is ultimately a diminution of what makes us human. It teaches us to see ourselves as objects, not subjects.
Jonathan Sacks
#54. It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
Joshua Foer
#55. We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human
Emilie Autumn
#56. And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we know.
Mark Lawrence
#57. We all do things we shouldn't. That's what makes us human.
Chris Birdy
#58. In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
Brian Herbert
#59. There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.
George Leonard
#60. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.
Paranjay Malkan
#61. Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.
Christopher Titus
#62. I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
Thomas Jane
#63. The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.
Will Ferguson
#64. It is human nature to avoid what makes us uncomfortable.
Jodi Meadows
#65. What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal of eternity upon them, a seal representing all those works that, by means of a particular form, have incarnated the universal nature of human emotions.
Muriel Barbery
#66. Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
John Irving
#67. Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
Wendy Wright
#68. If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Kit Williams
#69. Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.
Laurance Rockefeller
#70. FXC arguing that love is what makes us most human - to deny it is to deny an essential part of your humanity.
Doug Dorst
#71. If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.
Colin Blakemore
#72. A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It's like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings,
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#73. Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.
Greg Marinovich
#74. What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.
Stephen A. Diamond
#75. The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.
Joyce Brothers
#76. What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.
Robin Sharma
#77. Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.
Morena Baloyi
#78. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.
DeiAmor Verus
#79. As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
Lupita Nyong'o
#80. The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.
Flemming Rose
#81. I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.
Colin Trevorrow
#82. That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
George Lucas
#83. This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.
Kim Wright
#84. What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.
Fadia Faqir
#85. The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
David McCullough
#86. I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
Denise Mina
#87. It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
Nicola Griffith
#89. What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
Martin Freeman
#90. GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain.
John Wayne Gacy
#91. It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.
Taylor Schilling
#92. We are the observers, and our writing makes us witnesses to what we have seen and learned about the human condition.
Heather Ormsby
#93. In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben
#94. I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.
Maya Angelou
#95. While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking
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