Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Calvino, Italo

A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Steinbeck, John

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

12.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Terence

19.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

25.

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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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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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

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Turkish

41.

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.

42.

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

Barry, Dave

43.

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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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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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

46.

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.

47.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Lawrence, D. H.