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Humanness Quotes (page 214)

Maria Montessori quote: "Imagination does not become great until human beings, given..."
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. Maria Montessori
What though the radiance which was once so bright. Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour. Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find. Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy. Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring. Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. William Wordsworth
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from... Elizabeth Gilbert
We have, as human beings, a story telling problem, we're a bit to quick to come up with explanation for things we really don't have an explanation for. Malcolm Gladwell
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Henryk Sienkiewicz
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture. George Byron
A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538] Martin Luther
It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. John Steinbeck
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. Carl Sagan
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important? Herman Hesse
Karl Pilkington quote: "I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do..."
I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever. Karl Pilkington
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen
Alexander Dumas quote: "Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom..."
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope. Alexander Dumas

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