H Quotes
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“Humans have a deep yearning to be led.
I call it the "Messiah Effect.”
“Humans have a desire for truth. Or they have a desire to believe that what they know is the truth. In other words, the actual truth comes second to that desire. Be mindful of what is the truth and what is a lie. In other words, always doubt yourself. Harbor an inner devil's advocate as you read along... And I won't forget to add that by that point, you might have already fallen into my trap.”
“Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.”
“humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity”
“Humans have a great capacity for declaring something good or evil, without truly knowing.”
~Sarayu”
Source: The Shack
“Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.”
“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”
“Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.”
“Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.”
“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.”
“Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.”
Source: Artemis Fowl:
“Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.”
“Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being.”
“Humans have a special talent for complicating simplicity. We make a spectacle out of simple.”
Source: The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
“Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.”
“Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death”
“Humans have a tendency to look for things in the places where it is easiest to search for them rather than in the places where the truth is more likely to be found.”
Source: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
“Humans have always lived surrounded by potential pathogens. Whether they co-exist relatively harmlessly or become a problem, cause acute or chronic disease and spread slowly or in epidemics has been, and still is, influenced by how we have impacted the environments we share with other animals. Pathogens are opportunists within these environments, capable and ready to take advantage of anything that promotes their transmission.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn't until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day.”
“Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.”
“Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.”
“Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.”
“humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.”
Source: Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
“Humans have an excellent ability to see everything they look at but feel very little of what they see.”
Source: A Visão de um Pássaro: A Travessia de Aidan
“Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least 5,000 years ago and has continued without interruption, has recorded all of the problems that humans face, and the methods and techniques to overcome those problems.”
“Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!”
“Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.”
“Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.”
“Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.”
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”
“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”
“Humans have committed many crimes against nature, but one of the greatest is disrupting the general silence and tranquillity of the natural world!”
“Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.”
“Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.”
Source: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
“Humans have divided themselves in all possible ways. Country, religion, caste, color, wealth, language, profession, intellect, the list is endless. There are divisions within divisions and the reasons for all these divisions are the same - perceptions. If perceptions can divide, what can unite us?”
Source: Quantraz
“Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.”
Source: Nop's Trials: A Novel
“Humans have far longer memories than do animals and, thus revenge -the social settling of accounts with those who offended them- assumes a wholly new level with them.”
Source: War in Human Civilization
“Humans have fashioned the relationship with God into a vertical pattern, in adherance to their desire for hierarchy. The higher on this vertical pattern they perceive themselves to be, the better they feel they are in comparison to others. But they have lost before they have even begun! For the relationship with God is a horizontal pattern, not a vertical one. The only true religion is what manifests in how we treat our fellow people, animals, and the world we have been gifted with. The only relationship with God is born in our relationship with what is horizontal, what is parallel, to us.”
“Humans have free will but God is always a handy one to blame because He is the one who sits on the throne. He is the one who allows or does not allow things to happen. He will gladly take the blame because He knows that someday you will understand and forgive everything.”
Source: Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
“Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”
“Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.”
Source: The Fifth Agreement
“Humans have limitations due to selfish genes, competitive genes, and the fear-driving genes. The aim of compassionate AI is to overcome those limitations through service, care, compassion, honesty, and genuine love.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.”
“Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.”
Source: QUEST FOR PERFECTION: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings
“Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.”
“Humans have many limitations. The objective of compassionate artificial intelligence is to overcome those limitations in terms of honesty, integrity, compassion, and caring.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Intelligence
“Humans have more dopamine receptors than any other animal by brain weight. It provides energy, aggressiveness, and maybe even optimism. It suited the physical, experiential nature of our ancestors.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.”
“Humans have only one ending, ideas live forever.”