Top 1200 Human Folly Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business sense.

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.

All human suffering concerns each human being.

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.

Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films that are just human, that are about people. People need that, too. It's like we need to reconnect to what it is to be human. Not just what our political situation is. That's not what I'm thinking about exclusively. Human content is needed again, as it was in the '70s. I think films were more human than they've been since then.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.