Top 100 We Humans Quotes
#2. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky
#3. We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.
Luke Gracias
#4. You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.
Henry Petroski
#5. We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
Barry Lyga
#6. You guys just aren't fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don't stand a chance.
J.L. McCoy
#7. We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals. The Cross and the Switchblade, pg 90.
David Wilkerson
#8. We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
Atticus Poetry
#9. I guess the will to survive, to see another dawn, is the trait we humans value most.
Manel Loureiro
#10. We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.
Mark Lynas
#11. Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.
George Monbiot
#12. In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
Iyanla Vanzant
#13. Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.
Roman Payne
#14. Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others
an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.
James Redfield
#16. When our god fails to respond in the ways we expect, we humans tend to respond in one of two ways. We either blindly intensify our acts of worship or lash out in righteous anger.
Robert Glover
#17. We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.
John Grogan
#19. We humans are more concerned with having than with being.
Morgan Freeman
#20. One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell
#21. We, humans, easily associate every Good with God and every bad with devil, ignoring the fact that God is the creator and origin of everything.
Tarif Naaz
#22. Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
Mitchell Burgess
#23. Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.
Philip Yancey
#24. No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#25. People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.
Dan Chaon
#26. When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#27. We humans have two things that set us apart and make us able to do what no other form of life can - reason and feel. That's because we have brains and hearts.
Toni Sorenson
#28. What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.
Matt Goldman
#29. We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.
Suzanne Weyn
#30. We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.
Richard Lederer
#31. You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.
James Balog
#32. The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
Sam Kean
#33. The secret is love is a chaotic mess of every emotion we humans have given a name to.
R. YS Perez
#34. How twisted we humans are, and yet they say a god made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any god wo is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as the air.
Graham Greene
#35. I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.
Henry Rollins
#36. We humans can't see straight. We are always biased. We always protect our own interests.
Harlan Coben
#37. It remains, for me, the most powerful and elegant explanation of how we humans and our brains construct our very individual selves and worlds.
Oliver Sacks
#38. We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.
Cristiane Serruya
#39. We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
Vinod Khosla
#40. As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.
Sakyong Mipham
#41. The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we
will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.
Dan Brown
#42. We -humans - are wizard who turn miracles into technology.
Stefan Emunds
#43. I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.
Mary Roach
#44. We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
Sebastian Thrun
#45. In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not look good by comparison. We are supposed to be higher beings, so we must act according to our higher selves.
Dalai Lama XIV
#46. Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
John Mackey
#47. We humans are a technic species. Our technology, the pace of our technological advance, is a part of us, a part of everything we do.
Ian Douglas
#48. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.
John Bradshaw
#49. The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence.
Amish Tripathi
#50. We humans are explorers and pioneers, and we find our inner strength when the end state is the absolute unknown.
Zak Bagans
#52. We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins
#53. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Michael Pollan
#54. We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
Jonathan Haidt
#55. Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#56. Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
Leonard Mlodinow
#57. Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.
Juan Enriquez
#58. It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.
Charles Bolden
#59. When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.
Pamela Cummins
#60. I love the whirling of the dervishes.
I love the beauty of rare innocence.
You don't need no crystal ball,
Don't fall for a magic wand.
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
Kate Bush
#61. All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.
F.K. Preston
#62. We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#63. Why we don't feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day?
Are they useless or too many?
We humans must realize it before it is too late.
M.F. Moonzajer
#64. I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.
Sam Keen
#65. If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?
Thomas Buergenthal
#66. We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.
Jeff Bezos
#67. We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!
Richard Dawkins
#68. And as the room grows dark, I wonder at how we humans are born to pain, experience it constantly, and yet never learn the techniques of dodging it. We just learn to cope, to live. And some of us, if we are lucky enough, to thrive, in spite of it all.
Alice J. Wisler
#69. How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.
Nancy Horan
#70. For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.
Walter Cronkite
#71. You may not believe in evolution, and that's all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
Jane Goodall
#72. We(humans) have immortal capabilities, its just that we take them for granted.
Billkevin Wanjohi
#73. 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
#74. When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.
Francine Prose
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.
David Weinberger
#83. I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.
Henry Rollins
#84. We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.
Jerry A. Coyne
#85. We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest.
John O'Donohue
#86. we humans have a penchant for complicating stuff that probably shouldn't be all that complicated.
Jayne Castle
#87. We humans build machines to do things that we see being done in the world by animals and people, but we typically don't build them the same way that nature built us. As AI trailblazer Frederick Jelineck put it beautifully, Airplanes don't flap their wings.
Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew McAfee
#88. Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.
Pamela Cummins
#89. For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness
Carl Sagen
#90. The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
Lyle Lovett
#91. We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed
Thomas Gilovich
#92. We can break step. Magnificent living beings that we are, we humans are free to unravel our patterns.
Louisa Hall
#93. We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.
Michael Scott
#94. What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.
Jo Nesbo
#95. It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction ... [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Gentry Lee
#96. Nothing exists without a purpose. And we humans are subject to the laws of nature just as everything else on earth is.
Caroline Myss
#97. We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Neil LaBute
#98. We humans must confess, 'I am because he is.' Only God can say, 'I AM WHO I AM'.
Jen Wilkin
#99. I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean ...
Densey Clyne
