Top 1200 Human Folly Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

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

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

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

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

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

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

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

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

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

However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel!

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

The cultural pressure for a middle-class Chinese-American to walk, talk and act like a lower-class thug from Chinatown is nil. The same can be said of Jews, or of any other ethnic group. But in black America the folly is so commonplace it fails to attract serious attention.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.

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

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

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

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.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

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

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

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.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

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

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

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

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

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

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

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

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.

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

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

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

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

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

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

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

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.