Humanistm Quotes & Sayings

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself. — Kevin Costner

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit. — Rudolf Arnheim

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our — George Eliot

The emotion of nonviolence was building in him until it became a prejudice like any other thought-stultifying prejudice. To inflict any hurt on anything for any purpose became inimical to him. He became obsessed with this emotion, for such it surely was, until it blotted out any possible thinking in its area. But never was there any hint of cowardice in Adam's army record. Indeed he was commended three times and then decorated for bravery. — John Steinbeck

I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist. — Melora Hardin

I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone — Delta Goodrem

Open your window with joy and allow all of the love come in to touch your heart. — Debasish Mridha

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. — Shelley Mosley

Where there are no women there are no good manners — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me. — Markus Zusak

Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. — Flannery O'Connor

I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.