Human Body Quotes - Page 12

• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

  John Hall Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

  John Hall Gladstone (1872). “Michael Faraday”, p.41, London : Macmillan & Company

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• Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

  Laura Miller

  Fire, Stories, Body

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• Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Loss, Suffering, Substance

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.74, Vintage

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• The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Weakness, Body, Divinity

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• The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

  Robert Pinsky

  Art, Air, Dancing

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.8, Macmillan

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• An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

  Hernando Cortes

  Cities, Water, Purpose

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• Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

  Germaine Greer

  Weight, Body, Efficiency

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

  Robert Henri

  Beauty, Beautiful, Law

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

  Voltaire

  Art, Nature, Exercise

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1619, e-artnow

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• Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

  Avicenna

  Art, Health, Mean

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• Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Rain, Positive Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Everyday Immortality”, p.75, Random House

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• From one point of view we can say that we have human bodies and are practicing the Buddha's teachings and are thus much better than insects. But we can also say that insects are innocent and free from guile, where as we often lie and misrepresent ourselves in devious ways in order to achieve our ends or better ourselves. From this perspective, we are much worse than insects.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Lying, Teaching

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Eye, Reality

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. June 22, 2012.

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• The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

  Cullen Hightower

  Running, Health, Loss

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• If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

  Antony Tudor

  Dance, Ballet, Body

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• The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

  Robin Williams

  Running, Science, Toxic Waste

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• Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

  Igor Youskevitch

  Dance, Expression, Dancing

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• There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

  William E. Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

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• The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.

  Georg Hermes

  Art, Animal, Men

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• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

  John Dewey

  Hurt, Fall, Law

  John Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey (1921). “Letters from China and Japan”

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• Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Real, Color, Psychics

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• We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• Significance is inherent in the human body.

  Julia Kristeva

  Photography, Body, Significance

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• Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Blood, Long

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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