W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.”
“We humans are pretty bad at knowing the truth. In fact, our brains suffer from so many distortions, omissions and biases that our perceptions can be completely at odds with reality.”
Source: Copywriting Made Simple: How to write powerful and persuasive copy that sells
“We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.”
Source: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light
“We humans are so self-centred. Even the thoughts after someone’s death are never about them, they are about us. How it makes us feel, how it impacts our lives.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“We humans are spectacularly bad at understanding our own emotions.”
Source: Breakfast Buddies
“We humans are still a joke in this universe; we are not real, not yet! Universe can annihilate us in seconds! If we want to be something serious - something more than a joke, something more than a shadow - we must significantly raise our level of science!”
“We humans are strange creatures—we cry for those who don‘t respect us and forget those who treat us like royalty”
Source: Sukoon
“We humans are sucker for soft power.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“We humans are the most selfish in the world because we harm nature for our benefit. But we do not know that we are harming ourselves.”
“We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.”
Source: The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience
“We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth.”
“We humans, believe we know it all. When you think about the vastness of the universe, you begin to realise we know nothing other than the limitations of our own environment.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.”
“We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.”
“We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.”
Source: The Cross and the Switchblade
“We humans consider ourselves very intelligent, but we are the stupidest people in the world because we strike ax on our own feet by destroying nature for our own benefit.”
“We humans desperately seek stability in hopes, I think, that we can control our lives, though that isn't the way things work. Everything is in flux; we are dynamic beings born with expiration dates into an uncertain Universe.”
Source: Night People
“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”
Source: Memories of Ice
“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.”
“We humans don't regret on what we have done, we regret of how foolish we were.”
“We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”
Source: Freedom: The End of the Human Condition
“We, humans, easily associate every Good with God and every bad with devil, ignoring the fact that God is the creator and origin of everything.”
“We humans endure the gifts the gods give us, even when we are grieving over what has to be.”
Source: HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER
“We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.”
“We humans have a dual nature—we are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves. We are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee. If you take that claim metaphorically, then the groupish and hivish things that people do will make a lot more sense. It’s almost as though there’s a switch in our heads that activates our hivish potential when conditions are just right.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.”
“We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.”
“We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.”
“We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.”
“We humans have always struggled hard to make our families survive, and finally we are succeeding.”
Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.”
“We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.”
“We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.”
Source: The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
“We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.”
“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
Source: Freedom: The End of the Human Condition
“We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.”
“We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.”
Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
“We(humans) have immortal capabilities, its just that we take them for granted.”
“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.”
Source: Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
“We humans have inherent tendency to live in present. We tend to remember the dark lessons of our past when we come across darkness again and this is how we continue to suffer the same misery again and again.”
Source: I Know You Now
“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”
“We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.”
Source: Why Evolution Is True
“We humans have many ways to complain what burning sunlight gives more than a day's light, until purple moon cures us with her fondling balms,like every pain has a remedy to heal and future to grow.”
“We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.”
“We humans have no way to self-generate truth.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“We humans have survived and thrived for many centuries before the discovery of fire, which eventually led to the invention of cooking.”
“We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.”
Source: I Hunt Killers
“We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.”
“We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.”