Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Quotation Search

To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the Search Instructions for details.

Results of search for Quote or Author: human - Page 23 of 61 Showing results 221 to 230 of 609 total quotations found.
<- Previous Page	Pages: ... 20 21 22 23 24 25 26...	Next Page ->

Quotations by Subject: Mankind (28 quotes)

Results from Classic Quotes:

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 November 1984
Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923
In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.: James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- More quotations on: [Responsibility]
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
- More quotations on: [Fortune]
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus

<- Previous Page	Pages: ... 20 21 22 23 24 25 26...	Next Page ->
Results of search for Quote or Author: human - Page 23 of 61 Showing results 221 to 230 of 609 total quotations found.

Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..