Quotes 6901 till 6920 of 25800.
-
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
-
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
-
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-
Humanity is the great leading feature of the mild and beneficent system of Christianity, and what has tended to render it such an inestimable blessing to mankind.
rede van 17 april 1794 -
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
-
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
-
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
-
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
-
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
-
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.
Critical Path (1981)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Humans, with the capacities of higher-order thinking, can overcome limiting behaviors and fears.
-
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
-
Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
-
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
-
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
-
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
-
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
-
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
-
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
-
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
All two-and-a-half-hour famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 346)
