Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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.

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Smith, Adam

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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.

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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.

15.

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

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, 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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Socrates

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

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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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Rogers, Will

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

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