The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life. 929
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. 2.55K
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. 1.86K
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. 849
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. 2.25K
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. 783
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. 874
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others. 801
I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. 739
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. 740
Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter. 1.65K
Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature. 1.44K
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. 943
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. 707
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its ‘product’ cannot be turned out on an assembly line. 722
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. 868
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. 741
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. 768
