Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Deepak Chopra

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Andrew Pyper

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

Stephen Hawking

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Townes Van Zandt

I've been very lucky to work with people I think are funny and who are really awesome human beings.

Jillian Bell

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

Ezra Taft Benson

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Bob Graham

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Frances Wright

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Horace Mann

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Wilhelm Dilthey

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

Gerry Mulligan

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

George C. Williams

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

H. L. Mencken

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Jonathan Frakes

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe