Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Terence

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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Daumal, Rene

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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.

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

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

Foucault, Michel

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Weil, Simone

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George