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May you find great value in these quotes by Peter Medawar.
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Open
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
What do you take for granted?
It is human nature to take everything for granted -
our companions, our homes,
our electricity, our TVs and computers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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