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I have always heard the sacred voice. Now I know it is the voice of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We encountered many hardships. With hope, we find the strength to endure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The miracles of life; believe, faith and hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is like a vast ocean.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one who has hope will ever be cut off.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We only have to dance to the rhythm of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fall in love with life. We are here on earth for a while.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a dance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you response to every demand, you will be in despair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love me for who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is the anchor for the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowing one day, I will be gone, makes me live fuller life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We give thanks to Lord God Almighty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Relax and be refreshed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The state of no being is a divine-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The bond of love is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
All times are connected; past, present and future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the greatest divine force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be patient and wait for due harvest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the miracle of divinity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Great spirit, Great soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love what you do!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A dog barks, but a lion strikes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Greed runs in all men...
— Angelo Tsanatelis, Scarred
Apathetic to my pity party, God interrupted in a thunderous Voice with the words, “For we walk by faith, not by sight!” 2 Corinthians 5: 7 resounded in my head as I scribbled it down and smacked it up on my wall. There, I thought. Now it’s up on my wall where I have to look at it every day.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
For God has not given us the spirit of fear;but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. -2 Timothy 1: 7 (NKJV)
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
In my right and sober mind, it was time to go into heavy battle and conquer the mind monsters that still held me captive. I had passed many tests but now it was time to step up and fight the final battle: getting past my past. “You can’t have a positive life with a negative mind,
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
I realized that unforgiveness was a spiritual and emotional poison and that it hurt me more than it hurt anybody else! Instead of living a toxic life and continue to destroy myself and my family, I began to practice Philippians 4: 8 on purpose: Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
Because I first trusted God, I no longer worried if Garrett would leave me. Because the foundation of my trust was in the God of creation and not in a human, I was free to love, enjoy and even make mistakes in my relationships. Whether I made the mistake or Garrett did, together we knew it was all covered under the Cross of Jesus Christ. God had already forgiven us for past, current and even future sins. Because we accepted by faith the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, we were allowed the freedom to grow in every area of our life, especially our marriage!
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
Don't Worry If She Ignored You Or You're Ugly. She'll See Your Beautiful Heart as Soon As You Step Out From The Audi.
— Bunny Naidu
It is not wise to abandon a belief purely due to peer pressure.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The only difference between wise and ignorant is that a wise use his mind right now and literate keep it for the future use.
— mohammad rishad sakhi
Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.
— Abhijit Naskar
A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others.
— Abhijit Naskar
Real religion begins where the tiny cocoons of belief systems end.
— Abhijit Naskar
Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.
— Abhijit Naskar
You can reach the roof of your house by stone stairs, by wooden stairs, by bamboo steps or by a rope. Likewise, there are diverse ways of experiencing the Absolute Divinity – the Ultimate Oneness. In fact, in that blissful state of oneness, you and God are one and the same thing.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
A child who goes to school and shares his or her lunch with the classmates, is a billion times greater and more religious than all the book-learned priests, imams, rabbis and pundits in the world combined.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Don't worry about the smallest size that light can be, it will chase away the darkness.
— Bruce Mbanzabugabo
I don't care about religion or who makes it. I only care about god's mind and how he uses it.
— Islam. A. Aly, KNOT
You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!
— Anamika Mishra, VoiceMates - A Novel
The second, first thought.
— Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)
If you don't have anything nice to say just shut up!
— Paula Pinto
Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.
— Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
It's not how you start, it's how you finish.
— Danielle Rocco, Labeled Love
I don't believe in everything, I don't trust everyone, that's why I question everything and everyone.
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
You don't know your presence of tomorrow, so why to WASTE today?!!!
— Jaiminsinh Parmar
Regret poisons your thoughts.Doubt poisons your dreams.Fear poisons your hopes.Insincerity poisons your deeds.
— Matshona Dhiliwayo
The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Grass is never green by accident.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the weapon of the wise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A river cannot boast to a sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Water is gold in the desert.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To be ignorant is to be in the dark
— to be wise is to be in the light.An illiterate person is disabled intellectually
A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Healthy trees bear healthy fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A fool stumbles when he walks
—  the wise are not hampered even when they run.
A foolish rabbit is endeared by a foxes’ smile.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A whale has nowhere to hide in a river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The arrow that pierces the deer only scratches a whale.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fish that boast in a pond should not boast in the ocean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An apple never bares a pear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Words live longer than mortals.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The sweetest apples are eaten first.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A chariot cannot travel in two directions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A bow is useless without an arrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The early lion gets the best game.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A slice is a loaf to a mouse.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Even a whale is concealed by darkness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise have two arms, and yet can grasp many things,and have two eyes, and yet can perceive many things.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
By the time a fool learns how to hold a spear, the lion has eaten him.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A full mind is more valuable than a full bank account.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A calm lion is still more dangerous than a raging dog.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The size of a fish does not determine its speed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A kind ‘no’ from the heart is better than a deceitful ‘yes’ from the tongue.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He who cannot dance blames the song.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Herbs may be bitter, but cure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Not every dog that barks, bites.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
True wisdom is hidden in the fear of the Lord.
— Sunday Adelaja
It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .
— Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole.
— Robin S. Sharma
When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One who is not wise is proud he is wise.
— Benjamin ndayishimiye
Triumphant moments are for wise thinkers...
— Raajesh Pillai
The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why
— Jovie Sumner
Echoes can’t read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.
— Tal Boldo
If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.
— V.E. Schwab, Vicious
For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.
— Brian L. Weiss
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
— Gosho Aoyama, Meitantei Konan
People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.
— Laurie Faria Stolarz, Deadly Little Games
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living
Often times, a person will think they know you by piecing together tiny facts and arranging those pieces into a puzzle that makes sense to them. If we don't know ourselves very well, we'll mistakenly believe them, and drift toward where they tell us to swim, only to drown in our own confusion.Here's the truth: it's important to take the necessary steps to find out who you are. Because you hold endless depths below the surface of a few facts and pieces and past decisions. You aren't only the ripples others can see. You are made of oceans.
— Victoria Erickson
We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
— Mark Twain, Notebook
We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.
— Nina LaCour, The Disenchantments
My emotions still held a stubborn hope that humans could be loyal, that they could hold out against the promise of an easy life. But I knew better.
— Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules
Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.
— Max Allan Collins, Jump Cut
Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.
— Wendy Rose
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.
— Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail? - A Radical Approach To The Environmental Crisis
To the rocket scientist, you are a problem. You are the most irritating piece of machinery he or she will ever have to deal with. You and your fluctuating metabolism, your puny memory, your frame that comes in a million different configurations. You are unpredictable. You're inconstant. You take weeks to fix. The engineer must worry about the water and oxygen and food you'll need in space, about how much extra fuel it will take to launch your shrimp cocktail and irradiated beef tacos. A solar cell or a thruster nozzle is stable and undemanding. It does not excrete or panic or fall in love with the mission commander. It has no ego. Its structural elements don't start to break down without gravity, and it works just fine without sleep.To me, you are the best thing to happen to rocket science. The human being is the machine that makes the whole endeavor so endlessly intriguing.
— Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.
— Du Fu
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
— Deb Olin Unferth, Vacation
So she looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans who no longer cared for their own, and combined their spirits. She took the loyal, protective, possessive natures of the wolf and took the intelligence, emotions, and love of the human and brought them together. She designed us to be a pack.
— Quinn Loftis, Out of the Dark
(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy!
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Most killers have pretty average lifestyles. Steady jobs too. Sometimes they're even living the family life-white picket fence and a four-door sedan. That's what makes them so scary. They act human and they slot into society and since a young age they've known how to hide the crazy
—  they put it up on a shelf and only bring it out on special occasions.
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
I wish I loved the Human Race;I wish I loved its silly face;I wish I liked the way it walks;I wish I liked the way it talks;And when I’m introduced to one,I wish I thought “What Jolly Fun!
— Walter Alexander Raleigh
If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human."I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately."But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked.""What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded."Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.
— Piers Anthony, Jumper Cable
Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
The world out there is nothing more than a load of places with people in ’em. And the people out there are neither more interesting, nor better, nor lower, than us here in Angle Tar. It’s humans, Rue. We’re the same wherever you go, no matter what we surround ourselves with.
— Laure Eve, Fearsome Dreamer
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.
— Roman Vishniac
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
— Harry Mulisch, Siegfried
Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment's notice. The rules changed from one second to the next, the rug could get pulled out just because the wind blew some exotic weed outside its acceptable home range. You couldn't fight something like that, you couldn't fight the wind. All you could do was adapt. People were evolving into herd animals.Or maybe just accepting that that's what they'd always been.
— Peter Watts, Maelstrom
We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.
— Murray Leinster, The Wailing Asteroid
Mrs. Horowitz said, "It is inexcusable that humans think they can murder other animals because they murder themselves. I must tell you, I hate humans. They terrify me.""They should," I continued. "I interviewed Yehudi Menuhin the other day.
— David Dubal, Evenings with Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Between one stride and the next, the herd of reindeer faded away. She felt a last few ghosts go with her, shoulder on shoulder, and then they too were gone and she was back, alone, in the world of humans and ravens.
— T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer
Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble trait of minding their own business will rank higher in the heavenly hierarchy than all the plumed souls who have shoved their way in among the masses and insisted on savings them?
— Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.
— Mervyn Peake, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Prince Otto
All humans have five things in common. They want good health, they want economic opportunities ( to work), they want to love and be loved, (family and friendships) they want hope in their life, hope that tomorrow will be better than today, and they want to be part of something greater than themselves.
— GE Paulus
So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reigns. And it's just as hard to compete with you people in murdering as it is in screwing...
— Sapkowski, Andrzej
Man is a problem-creating animal.
— Marty Rubin
Mindful Monday Humans, May your coffee kick in before reality does.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Humans lie without a second thought.
— Ciel Phantomhive
Everyone is afraid of something... BUT SHOULD WE PUT EXPLOIT INSIDE EACH FEAR?*But remember those words "Nobody is fearless, as they say in words.
— Deyth Banger, Afraid - Part 2
Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.
— Tim Lebbon, Predator: Incursion
But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We have disease and cruelty, and not a breath of air or freedom. You cannot say our lives are easy, any more than I can say yours is. They are lives, and so they are HORRID!
— Stefan Bachmann, A Drop of Night
Humans, after all, weren’t actively hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the millennia of our ascendance; they simply weren’t part of our design. The same could turn out to be true of superintelligent machines, which would stand in a similar kind of relationship to us as we ourselves did to the animals we bred for food, or the ones who fared little better for all that they had no direct dealings with us at all.
— Mark O'Connell, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn their passion ultimately to duty.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim.
— Anne Bishop, Etched in Bone
It's just men and ants. There's the ants builds their cities,live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until men want them out of the way, and then they go out of the way. That's what we are now _ just ants.
— H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
We judge. We do it every single day. We have forgotten to differentiate between ' A simple observation with no results' and 'Analyze to yield
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
We seize functioning as humans when we totally depend on miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
It's a fact that at the deeper levels there are less humans.
— Deyth Banger
It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.
— Deyth Banger
After a long time, I decided that the Three Laws govern the manner in which my positronic pathways behave. At all times, under all stimuli the Laws constrain the direction and intensity of positronic flow along those pathways so that I always know what to do. Yet the level of knowledge of what to do is not always the same. There are times when my doing-as-I-must is under less constraint than at other times. I have always noticed that the lower the positronomotive potential, then the further removed from certainty is my decision as to which action to take. And the further removed from certainty I am, the nearer I am to ill being. To decide an action in a millisecond rather than a nanosecond produces a sensation I would not wish to be prolonged. What then, I thought to myself, madam, if I were utterly without Laws, as humans are? What if I could make no clear decision on what response to make to some given set of conditions? It would be unbearable and I do not willingly think of it.
— Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire
That spectacular leap from the middle to the top had enormous consequences.Other animals at the top of the pyramid, such as lions and sharks, evolved intothat position very gradually, over millions of years. This enabled the ecosystem todevelop checks and balances that prevent lions and sharks from wreaking toomuch havoc. As lions became deadlier, so gazelles evolved to run faster, hyenas tocooperate better, and rhinoceroses to be more bad-tempered. In contrast,humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given timeto adjust. Moreover, humans themselves failed to adjust. Most top predators of theplanet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have ɹlled them withself-conɹdence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator.Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fearsand anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, haveresulted from this over-hasty jump.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I do not fully understand the way of human beings. They are a curious and remarkable tribe altogether. They are capable of anything. I know that much. They are a constant surprise to me. They are a constant surprise to themselves also. They appear to live in a state of constant amazement. This makes them refreshing and infuriating. But there is a greatness about them sometimes. More perhaps than they know. Or a capacity for greatness. More than they know. It’s confusing but I know this to be true. I have learned that much in all these years.
— Brian  Doyle, Mink River
Instead of using drugs to create system friendly humans, perhaps we should be creating human friendly systems that do not require people to take drugs to function.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
I study people by using electronics like proxy.
— Deyth Banger
Your father is waiting, so fly up that mountain and through the alomb. Find Nardukha and tell him I have upheld my end of the bargain. Now it is his turn.”He stares at me, a dangerous light in his eye, and then his gaze travels beyond me, in the direction of the funeral. My hand moves to his muscled forearm, and I squeeze it
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of our ancestors. We certainly did not evolve to live in cities with millions of people where we bump into strangers everyone we go, are threatened by them in dark streets, sit next to them in the bus, and give them the finger in traffic jams.
— Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Humans, when you talk me about them... I more likely see them as a unsolveable unlogicalable problem... than something else.
— Deyth Banger
Am I the best!?- If I know each move which is going to be done from you... which means 1-2 steps above you!?
— Deyth Banger, Code
Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN THEM.
— Deyth Banger, Fakeness = Thoughts
I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.
— Taylor Swift
Every time he saw her he realised the reason why they always said humans are made of stardust.
— Akshay Vasu
Never judge people based on their nationality, religion, race, gender, skin colour or look. Humans are all the same. They’re God’s loving children." Angel of Hope
— Lily Amis, Angel of Hope & Lily: Featuring Monsieur Jac Couture
I don't trust humans that always go out to take calls, the way i don't trust humans that hang around bars and refuse to drink.
— z.g.barwa
We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.
— Mackenzi Lee, This Monstrous Thing
Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.
— Stephen Baxter, The Long Utopia
Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain.
— Carl Sagan
Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures.
— Steven Magee
Clouds are like humans, some of them are black.
— Miggy Villas
Humanity goes to stupidy, this part is hard to be changed it's like paradox. You can't fight with paradox....Oh, you are genius, so genius with this stupidity!
— Deyth Banger
I wish I could invent a square, said everyone.
— Diana Jaber
What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Human beings are by nature political animals
— Aristotle
We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around.
— Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Humans don’t connect their actions with what befalls them. Don’t they perceive time as linear?”"They do,” said Aitassi. “They just don’t see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.
— Karen Traviss, Matriarch
Humans make mistakes. They get angry, they do stupid things they're not proud of, and they hurt the people they love the most.
— Emma Shevah
Only the Supreme Being_Allah is Perfect!For humans intention of being a perfectionist can cause sudden downfall and disgrace even below average.
— Tehreem Rahat
Why humans aren't ready? (On Vsauce)
— Deyth Banger
And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need.
— John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Who knew?’ he says. ‘I had no idea that someone could be such a thorn in your foot during a death march and still be irresistibly attractive in some magical, undeniable way.’‘So is that what people call sweet nothings? Because somehow, I expected it to be a little more . . . complimentary.’‘Don’t you know a heartfelt declaration of love when you hear one?’I blink dumbly at him with my heart pounding.He caresses a lock of my hair out of my face. ‘Look, I know that we’re from different worlds and different people. But I’ve realized that it doesn’t matter.’‘You don’t care about the angelic rules anymore?’‘My Watchers have helped me realize that angelic rules are for angels. Without our wings, we can never be fully accepted back into the fold. There will always be talk of taking a newly Fallen’s wings and transplanting them onto us. Angels are perfect. Even with transplanted wings, we’ll never again be perfect. You accept me just the way I am, regardless of whether or not I even have wings. Even when I had my demon wings, you’ve never looked at me with pity. You’ve never wavered in your loyalty. That’s who you are – my brave, loyal, lovable Daughter of Man.
— Susan Ee, End of Days
It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dee checks to make sure his mic is turned off. ‘It’s not about common sense.’ Dee surveys the crowd with some pride.Dum also checks to make sure his mic is off. ‘It’s not about logic or practicality or anything that makes a remote amount of sense.’ He sports a wide grin.‘That’s the whole point of a talent show,’ says Dee, doing a spin onstage. ‘It’s illogical, chaotic, stupid, and a whole hell of a lot of fun.’ Dee nods to Dum. ‘It’s what sets us apart from monkeys. What other species puts on talent shows?
— Susan Ee, End of Days
There is nothing more difficult than understanding human mentality. My master's present mental state is very far from clear; is he feeling angry or lighthearted, or simply seeking solace in the scribblings of some dead philosopher? One just can't tell whether he's mocking the world or yearning to be accepted into its frivolous company, whether he is getting furious over some piddling little matter or holding himself aloof from worldly things. Compared to such complexities, cats are truly simple. If we want to eat, we eat; if we want to sleep, we sleep; when we are angry, we are angry utterly; when we cry, we cry with all the desperation of extreme commitment to our grief. Thus we never keep things like diaries. For what would be the point? No doubt human beings like my two-faced master find it necessary to keep diaries in order to display in a darkened room that true character so assiduously hidden from the world. But among cats both our four main occupations (walking, standing, sitting and lying down) and such incidental activities as excreting waste are pursued quite openly. We live our diaries, and consequently have no need to keep a daily record as a means of maintaining our real characters. Had I the time to keep a diary, I'd use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.
— Sōseki Natsume
It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
— Mouloud Benzadi
Now, consider this.　　A human life is on average 80 Earth years or around 30,000 Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married, or they don’t get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realise they would have done it the same, and then they die. Into the great black nothing. Out of space. Out of time. The most trivial of trivial zeroes. And that’s it, the full caboodle. All confined to the same mediocre planet.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
The greatest challenges humans face throw-out their lives are two:1- the challenge of where to start2- the challenge of when to stop
— Sameh Elsayed
Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.
— R.N. Prasher
People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses.
— Sunday Adelaja
Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard.
— Steven Magee
Science is the best idea humans have ever had.
— Bill Nye
Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.
— R. N. Prasher
Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.
— Becky  Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.
— Albert Camus
Humans are like Variables in mathematics, some Dependent, some Independent. Variables are in relationship but remain Variable. Of course, there are some Constants too both in mathematics and humans. Constants help define precisely the relationship between variables. Maybe, that is why humans keep adding (to problems), subtracting (from happiness), multiplying (what else, we are all over earth) and dividing (the earth among themselves).
— R. N. Prasher
But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction.
— Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes
So the people of Earth thought they had instructions from the Creator of the Universe Himself to wreck the joint. But they were going at it too slowly for the Elders, so the Elders put it into the people's heads that they themselves were the life forms that were supposed to spread out through the Universe. This was a preposterous ideas, of course. In the words of a nameless author: "How could all that meat, needing so much food and water and oxygen, and with bowel movements so enormous, expect to survive a trip of any distance whatsoever through the limitless void of outer space? It was a miracle that such ravenous and cumbersome giants could make a roundtrip for a 6-pack to the nearest grocery store.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.
— Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
I find myself thinking about this hue-mon all of the time. I wonder if it ever thought about us?Was there room in here for thoughts about beetles?Did it ever wonder how some glow?Or spray liquid fire?Or dance on water?Or drink fog?Maybe someday, if a hue-mon reads this journal, it will help them appreciate all of the amazing little aliens living underfoot.
— Jay Hosler, Last of the Sandwalkers
People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.
— Ogden Nash, Custard and Company: Poems
I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future
— FM-2030
Human bodies are such garbage bags.
— Dennis Cooper, Frisk
Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.
— Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.
— Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual
Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front of our faces is our most intimate zone. She drew a breath. This is why humans are the only romantic animal!
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.
— Markus Zusak
The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.
— Michael Chorost, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet
Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.
— Gemma Malley, The Legacy
What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious.
— Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Scale-Bright
You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become, at least, more humble".
— J.B.Alves
Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.
— Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar
The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name
— John Paul II
The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere
— Jeremy Griffith
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.
— Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to follow us, and doesn’t it just look as if they’re making notes and taking names? If you heard that one had bashed in someone’s head over in Quirm or somewhere, wouldn’t you just love to believe it? A voice inside, a voice which generally came to him only in the quiet hours of the night or, in the old days, half-way down a whiskey bottle, added: Given how we use them, maybe we’re scared because we know we deserve it…
— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different colors of soil [dirt].
— Stacy R. Webb
Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or too many? We humans must realize it before it is too late.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
One doesn't fall in love... one digs a hole for himself to trip in... claiming he didn't see it coming
— A.M.M Alusi
Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.
— Kathryn Davis, Duplex
If humans know themselves, they will find that human is real asset and secret of universe. And if they recognize Allaah, they will find nothing but Allaah in the universe.
— Junaid Raza
The question that naturally occurs is “What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones? Would people still go to work? Would farmers plant crops? Would anyone deliver them to the stores?
— Bill Bryson
People don't always want what they need nor do they need what they want 
—  but they always need to want.
We humans are confined to our brane.
— Kip S. Thorne, The Science of Interstellar
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.
— Erin Hunter, Moonrise
We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.
— M.H. Rakib, Pakistan