Quotes of: Humanities Keyword

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

The true asset before any human being on this planet are... Enthusiasm & Will... with these everything comes from nothingness & devoid of them everything perishes to nothingness...

Destiny Re scripted

If you can love cats, you can love human beings, because you have to be able to love them without getting them at all.

Downton Tabby

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

Ender's Game

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITY When you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. [222] – 4

Eddies of Life

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Eleven Minutes

How our attitudes are shaped and defended may be more changeable than we realize.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. .

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

Faith and Doubt

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Foundation and Empire

What humanity wants most is crude sensation. Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Full Dark House

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

The Federalist Papers

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.

Gagamba: The Spider Man

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Of Human Bondage