Quotes of: Human-wisdom Keyword

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.

David Brin

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Jimmy Carter

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Jeremy Gilley

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset...

The Lost World

One of the most curious aspects of human psychology is an omnipresent and persistent habit to seek information from the worst possible sources. When seeking relationship advice, humans speak to their single friends instead of happy couples who have b...

Kharmic Rebound

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfar...

Atheism: The Case Against God

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from ph...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specificall...

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphins – because they seldom grow up. Behavioral tr...

Still Life with Woodpecker

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young coup...

Three to Get Married

One of the dangers of the spiritual story is that it disassociates humans from reality. Relieving world hunger, crime and suffering are replaced with fantasies of other worlds, dimensions, gods or forces that will magically take care of humanities pl...

Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human

I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of “atonement:” “If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehum...

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

The irony of the present day is, that, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human r...

Henrietta Newton Martin

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have mad...

Ashley Montagu

If you fear God, you won't fear humans.

Albanian

The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes.

Chinese

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Caravan of Dreams

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Charlie Brown's Little Book of Wisdom

A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.

The Dhammapada

Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally! - 150 -

Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme