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Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom. -- L. Ron Hubbard
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. -- Iris Murdoch
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. -- Frank B. Kellogg
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. -- Robert Fulghum
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. -- Desiderius Erasmus
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. -- Noam Chomsky
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. -- Edward Bond
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. -- Matt Blunt
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs. -- George Steiner
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. -- James Allen
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. -- Adam Ferguson
Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs. -- Herbert A. Simon
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. -- Roger Bannister
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. -- Saint Basil
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down. -- Richard Jefferies
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. -- William Dunbar
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up. -- Theodore Dalrymple
There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen. -- Atul Gawande
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety. -- Plato
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. -- Maurice Strong
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. -- George Santayana
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. -- Anatole France
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. -- William H. Hastie
Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results. -- William C. Oates
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. -- Peter Drucker
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs -- Alexander Hamilton
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision. -- Peter Senge
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them. -- Jaron Lanier
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record. -- Gavin Extence
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. -- Isaac Barrow
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. -- Victor Hugo
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] -- Plautus
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs. -- Frederick Seitz
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs. -- Albert Einstein
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. -- Henry Clay
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. -- Sidney Hook
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. -- Eric Hoffer
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. -- William Boyd
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. -- Alexander Hamilton
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. -- Zicheng Hong
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs. -- Pliny the Elder
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. -- Terence
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? -- William Shakespeare
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. -- Ambrose Bierce
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. -- Margaret MacMillan
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. -- Baruch Spinoza
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs! -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. -- Thomas Jefferson
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion. -- Mardy Grothe
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs. -- Ernest Lawrence
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive. -- Eknath Easwaran
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. -- Umberto Eco
If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. -- Eric Hoffer
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. -- Eric Hoffer
In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere. -- P. G. Wodehouse
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. -- Max Born
In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions. -- Eric Hoffer
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues. -- Joseph Jastrow
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs. -- Rodney Stark
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.] -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it. -- George Washington
By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds. -- Francesco Guicciardini
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs. -- Sherman Glenn Finesilver
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets. -- Kinky Friedman
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible. -- Frank Macfarlane Burnet
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. -- Enoch Powell
The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life. -- Mary Burnett Talbert
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. -- Adam Smith
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public. -- James Madison
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa. -- Niels Bohr
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs. -- Thomas Szasz
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers. -- Desiderius Erasmus
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth. -- Richard P. Feynman
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad. -- Herbert Spencer
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all. -- Hannah Arendt
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs. -- Stanislaw Ulam
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.] -- Francesco Guicciardini
The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on. -- Milan Kundera
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage. -- Ludwig von Mises
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure. -- Isaiah Berlin
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless. -- George Steiner
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow. -- Anthony Daniels
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages. -- Samuel Johnson
There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions. -- Mark A.R. Kleiman
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs. -- Kabir
The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs. -- George Roche III
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. -- John Adams
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness. -- Seneca the Younger
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes. -- Albert Einstein
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?] -- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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