Dante Alighieri Humanism Quotes & Sayings

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. — Samuel Smiles

It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn't racing, and it wasn't pounding ... It was dancing. Singing. — Julia Quinn

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame. — Tyler Cowen

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free. — Francois Rabelais

You cannot live with inner tranquility and peace when you hate others. — Debasish Mridha

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. — Arthur Rimbaud

What do we forget when we talk to machines? We forget what is special about being human. We forget what it means to have authentic conversation. Machines are programmed to have conversations "as if" they understood what the conversation is about. So when we talk to them, we, too, are reduced and confined to the "as if. — Sherry Turkle

[ ... ] I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones. — Jim Harrison

It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one ... — Tran Dai Nghia

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me. — Virginia Woolf

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more? — Stanley Fish

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward. — Gregory Stock

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences? — Charles Fort

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror. — Catherine DeVrye