Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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.

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

Socrates

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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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

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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Blake, William

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

Smith, Adam

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Dante Alighieri

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Twain, Mark

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