Humans Quotes

Dogs never bite me - just humans.
Marilyn Monroe

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
Dalai Lama

Billion, Handful

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Spirit, Half

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks

Nature, Great, Truth

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Human, Reason

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot

Love, Gratitude, Loyalty

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

Smart, Sense, View

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

Nature, Mind, Another

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

Job, Different, Difficult

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck

Eyes, Seen, Dogs

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker

Women, Men, Black

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams

Religion, Dating, Nothing

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins

Technology, Important, Deep

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Done, Try, Often

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas

Same, Others, While

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
Albert Ellis

Human, Unfair, Condition

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling

Power, Human, Whose

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson

Selfish, Win, Between

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke

Children, Purpose, Eat

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Evil, Ability, Abstract

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling

Worst, Choosing, Knack

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
P. J. O'Rourke

Nature, Government, Alas

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. Wilson

Social, Earth, Next

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
E. O. Wilson

Work, Affected, Ants

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
Ivo Andric

Afraid, Inhuman

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
Ann Druyan

Important, Ego, Universe

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
Robert Anton Wilson

Live, Through, Endure

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott

Treat, Mistake, Dogs

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
E. O. Wilson

Religion, Problems, Honest

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