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Quotes About Humans

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.
~ Philip Yancey
Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended.
~ Philip Yancey
Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost.' To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime.
~ Philip Yancey
20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[35] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
~ Philip Yancey
Yo he alcanzado este popular renombre por una cierta clase de sabiduría que poseo. ¿De qué sabiduría se trata? Ciertamente, de una sabiduría propia de los humanos. Y en ella es posible que yo sea sabio
~ Plato
So, Euthyphro, piety then, should be regarded as a reciprocal exchange between Gods and humans.
~ Plato
I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town." "Depends on the human," Claire said. "As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn't vote him to be in charge.
~ Rachel Caine
Breath, Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but I hear it's quite good for humans. -Myrnin.
~ Rachel Caine
Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is—just a word.
~ Rachel Cohn
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.
~ Rachel Cohn
I decided to give myself a Christmas present this year. I decided to spend the day only speaking to animals (real and stuffed), select humans as necessary so long as they weren't my parents or Langston, and a Snarl in a red Moleskine notebook—if he returned it to me.
~ Rachel Cohn
Dogs in general, not just good Dixie, sometimes regarded their humans with an expression of loving concern colored with tender pity, as if they knew not merely people's most private fears and hopes, but also the very truth of life and the fate of all things, as though they wished that they could speak in order to give comfort by sharing what they knew.
~ Dean Koontz
Yet we humans have the hubris to think we can build eternal cities, stop the aging process, control the climate
~ Dean Koontz
These guys, just because we're NBA athletes, we're not superhumans.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
I grew up saying that I love humans, but I love dogs much, much more.
~ Jordan Fisher
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
~ Immanuel Kant
Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
~ Ina May Gaskin
The jungle is like a different planet — a world of shadows, bugs, jaguars, anacondas. But none of these animals did us as much harm as the humans.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
~ Isobelle Carmody
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
~ Isobelle Carmody
Kedilerin kentiyle insanlar?n kenti iç içeydi, ama ayn? kent de?ildiler.
~ Italo Calvino
But it wasn't money they were going to keep," Brewer said. "We've now collected data on 150 participants. Animals need a reward to motivate them, but humans usually find motivation in just trying to succeed at a task. That's a big difference between rats and humans.
~ Unknown
I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.
~ Unknown