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Quotes About Human

Every human being who has ever lived has the same potential in them for good and evil. Mortal or sorcerer, it doesn't matter. Power has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Mevolent. Serpine. Hitler. Lord Vile. Darquesse. We're all the same." "You just put me on a list with Hitler." "You're going to start sulking again, aren't you?
~ Derek Landy
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.
~ Benton MacKaye
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
~ Henry Adams
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
~ Voltaire
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
~ Cory Doctorow
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
~ Robert Frost
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
~ Albert Einstein
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.
~ Ernest Sosa
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about
~ Piero Scaruffi
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
~ Poul Anderson
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.
~ Ramesh Srinivasan