Motivational Quotes

Humankind

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Humankind

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

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

Calvino, Italo

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Doren, Carl Van

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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

Socrates

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

11.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

12.

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.

13.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

15.

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

18.

Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

21.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Casals, Pablo

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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Rogers, Will

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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Twain, Mark

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

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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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Reik, Theodor

31.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Murdoch, Iris

34.

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

36.

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.

37.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Sumner, Charles

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

Terence

41.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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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.

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

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