Quotes with human-like

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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Lillian Smith The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Martin Luther The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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  • Louis de Bernieres The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
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    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • John Berger The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Evelyn Waugh The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • George Santayana The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • John F. Kennedy The human mind is our fundamental resource.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Marcel Proust The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Horace The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Mark Twain The human race has an effective weapon and that is laughter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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