Motivational Quotes

Humankind

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Humankind

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Smith, Adam

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Reichmann, W.J.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Einstein, Albert

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

12.

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

16.

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Dahlberg, Edward

18.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

22.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Murdoch, Iris

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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

25.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston

27.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Caulfield, Holden

28.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Thurber, James

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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Doren, Carl Van

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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

41.

Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald

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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Mayhew, Dr Edward

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There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates