Carl Sagan Quotes

Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.

Every life is capable of greatness.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

I'm only a human being.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

Therein lies the greatness of man. Fear is never allowed to dominate that desire for greater knowledge and as long as mankind retains that spirit we will move forward.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I'm only human.

Yes, I do believe that human beings are not perfect.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things