No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James A. Baldwin

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
Gertrude Stein

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
Franz Kafka

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell