H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Human beings only can grow by changing awareness and consciousness about their surroundings and about the universe as a whole.”
“Human beings only transform reality with their spiritual power in proportion to what they believe they can change. In this sense, spirituality is always proportional to the capacity to create postulates and make them reality.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?”
“Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”
“Human beings physically want to travel to the past rather than the future, and the reason for this is because people's past is like a graveyard full of mistakes that need to be corrected!”
“Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.”
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.”
“Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.”
“Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.”
“Human beings remember experiences”
“Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.”
“Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.”
Source: Culture and Commitment
“Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.”
“Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.”
“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”
“Human beings should protect all children. But among the ancient Hopis a "human being" was one who spoke and lived by truth while those who did not; were not..”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.”
“Human beings strive to earn all their life and at the end realise that only charity can give them peace!”
“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”
Source: Dragon's Teeth
“Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.”
“Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.”
“Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.”
Source: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
“Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.”
“Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.”
Source: Composing a Life
“Human beings, the ultimate seekers, have
responded too well to the challenge of pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain.
As a result, we’ve transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place
of overwhelming abundance.”
Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.”
“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.”
“Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.”
Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning
“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.”
“Human beings today thus enter into each and every social interaction with me-motives, sympathetic you-motives, egalitarian motives, group minded we-motives, and a tendency to follow whatever cultural norms are in effect.”
Source: A Natural History of Human Morality
“Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.”
Source: Outlander: Short Stories and Essays
“Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.”
Source: In good faith
“Human beings understand too much.”
“Human beings’ use their minds to interpret reality and sort the true from the false. A physical compromised, inherent bias, and lack of awareness can lead a person into misconstruing reality, and confusing what is true and false. A person living a deluded life of sins and poverty must reexamine their life and develop a proper and sustainable life plan.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.”
“Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.”
“Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel an what they understand about your work effects how they value it.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.”
“Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time's rule over us even more precise.
The fact that we have these rules means that we've given up some of our freedom. And yet we've surrounded ourselves with reminders of that loss of freedom—by hanging clocks on walls and dotting them around our houses. And as if that weren't enough, we make sure that there's a clock wherever we go, no matter what we're doing. We've even felt the need to wrap our bodies up in time by going so far as to wrap it around our wrists.
But now I think I'm beginning to understand. With freedom comes uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety. Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by set rules and routines—despite knowing that they pay the cost of these rules and regulations with their freedom.”
Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London
“Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.”
Source: Intuition
“Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.”
“Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.”
“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”
“Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
“Human beings were so damn resilient. We saw color through blackened vision, latched onto hope in hopeless places, and loved with every damaged piece of our broken-down hearts.”
Source: Older