Top 1200 Human Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Yoga is the study of the human body. It is the surge for the human soul.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

The actual work of reviewing, teaching and learning is human to human.

You know, Vik, you’re amazingly human at times. (Alix) I know. But I wonder if the feelings I have are real or just electrical stimulations in my cortex that simulate human emotion. I wish I knew if they were real or imagined. (Vik) And that makes you completely human, sweetie. We all have those doubts. (Alix)

More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

Narcissism is a trait universally unappreciated by human beings, and NFL players fall into this human bucket.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.