All Quotes

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
‐‐ Rollo May

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
‐‐ Daniel Dennett

'Human Giant' was a kind of lightning in a bottle. A rare opportunity for us to write and create our own sort of thing, with very few restrictions.
‐‐ Rob Huebel

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
‐‐ Anne Frank

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
‐‐ Alan Rudolph

Human improvement is from within outward.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.
‐‐ Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
‐‐ Huston Smith

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
‐‐ Giovanni Boccaccio

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
‐‐ P. D. James

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
‐‐ Herbert Simon

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
‐‐ John Jewel

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Human life is beyond comprehension.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
‐‐ Vinoba Bhave

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
‐‐ Elihu Root

Human life is too difficult for people.
‐‐ Paul Engle

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
‐‐ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
‐‐ Katherine Anne Porter

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.
‐‐ Thomas Ligotti

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
‐‐ Francois Mauriac

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
‐‐ Czeslaw Milosz

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
‐‐ Primo Levi

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
‐‐ Euripides