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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
View quotes by Maya Angelou

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. - Of Human Bondage
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest (An Essay on Man Epistle 1)
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
View quotes by John Locke

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies
View quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
View quotes by William James

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
View quotes by Sir John Lubbock

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
View quotes by Daniel Dennett

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
View quotes by William James

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! - Life and Human Nature
View quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.
View quotes by Philip Guedalla

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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