Human Quotes

"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
-George Orwell

"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."
-Voltaire

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."
-Voltaire

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No human thing is of serious importance."
-Plato

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
-Mark Twain

"There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce."
-Mark Twain

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
-Mark Twain

"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."
-Mark Twain

"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
-Mark Twain

"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
-George Orwell

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."
-George Orwell

"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid."
-George Orwell

"The future is a boot smashing a human face forever."
-George Orwell

"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."
-Nikki Giovanni

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
-Aristotle

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
-Aristotle

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"To err is human; to forgive, infrequent."
-Franklin P. Adams

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
-Socrates

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
-Carl Sagan

"THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."
-Sophocles

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
-Aldous Huxley

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
-John F. Kennedy