#human beings

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#beings #far #human #human beings #important

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#covering #enough #everything #flaws #human

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#beings #courage #gain #great #great qualities

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #before #beings #each #faces

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#cars #diamonds #furs #human #human beings

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#fact #half #human #human beings #now

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#beings #creates #exploits #human #human beings

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. ↗

— James Randi

#been #beings #decisions #experiments #human

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced