- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human Quotes
Being human is a work in progress.
These human quotes take a reflective turn, covering our capacity to change and adapt, the elusive search for real satisfaction beyond consumption, and a candid look at why relationships often fall short of what we hope for. For more, see our Human Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
- Accomplish
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Showing young girls' realistically captured bodies in ads lets young girls realise that it's okay to have dimples, stretches, rolls, etc. since we're only human.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020