Human Thought

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or thought:

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)