I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.”
“It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all.”
Source: A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
“It is human nature for self-doubt to occasionally creep in and take up residence. It happens to even the most successful people among us.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“It is human nature, it seems, to have the desire to leave a legacy, to leave something behind, to be remembered.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“It is human nature not to take things seriously until they become serious enough to prove that we should have taken them seriously before things got serious.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.”
“It is human nature to avoid being concerned with the welfare of the less privileged. So often I have observed those a little more fortunate walk by with stiff backs and upturned noses, as though they are infallible, removed from the suffering of humanity. So often the more fortunate assume an air of ridicule and contempt towards men of humbler birth. Out island is not free from discrimination, although it may be subtle and disguised. If you escape the race barrier, there is still that of higher income, and in some circles, that of a high school education.”
Source: I, Vagabond
“It is human nature to compare ourselves to others. The key to self-love, motivation and growth is shifting your focus from the results to the process. Instead of comparing outcomes, compare the choices and actions that created them. Don’t just wish for change—commit to it. Trade envy for action, longing for progress, and take the first step toward becoming who you are meant to be. You have the power to embody your best self in every moment, achieve your goals and turn your dreams into reality.”
Source: Jealousy is the Moon
“It is human nature to express their work as the toughest and most important, and to always exaggerate the hardships faced in performing it.”
Source: Porus : In the Shadow of Betrayals
“It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.”
“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.”
“It is human nature to long for a deep and fulfilling soul connection with another but the first step to a soul connection is having a connection with your own soul.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.”
“It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.”
“It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.”
Source: Works
“It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.”
Source: I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
“It is human nature to shed tears in agony, but taking pain to wipe another's tear is humanity.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.”
Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“It is human nature to want approval, acceptance, and adoration because it feels good. In order to achieve adoration, it requires comparison with a group then deviation from that group. Equality will never generate adoration. You must extricate yourself from a group in order to emphasize your differences. Emphasizing differences emphasizes disparity, contrast, and nonconformity. Ironically, the need for love leads to hate.
How is hate created? Hate is linked to its predecessor jealousy, which is an emotional bond of unfulfilled need, fear of loss, and belief in limitation that forces a will upon the one who is not conforming. It is the need to control a being through force by threatening violence or humiliation.”
“It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.”
Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)
“It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.”
“It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.”
“It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.”
“It is human to crave the touch of another’s skin for it is where pleasures can be found.”
Source: Seduction, Lies & Betrayal
“It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.”
“It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.”
“It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“It is human to experience a meltdown when facing a closed door, but you have to learn to re-strategize in order to experience an open door.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“It is human to feel imperfect. That was what you wanted, above all else: to be human. And now that is what you are. The imperfections - the weaknesses - the imprecisions - they are the very things which define humans as human. And which drive them to transcend their own failings.”
Source: The Positronic Man (Robot # 0.6) [Annotated]
“It is human to have your soul brought to a crisis you did not anticipate." --Leto II”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.”
“It is human to sin but divine to be saved.”
“It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.”
“It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.
Yet the ultimate hack is to belong with yourself.
Once you belong within,
You belong with all.”
“It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“It is humanity that’s actually propagated through the gossamer, reaching tendrils of trust and the emergence of happiness.”
Source: The Tribe That Discovered Trust: How Trust Is Created Lost and Regained in Commercial Interactions
“It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in.”
“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”
“It is humanly impossible to be an entirely bad or good person.”
“It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“It is humanly impossible to be unhappy while you are dancing or laughing willingly.”
“It is humbling to realize that what you hate (the most) about someone is actually what they love (the most) about themselves.”
“It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.”
“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.”
“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.”
“It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.”