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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rogers, Will

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

Williams, Tennessee

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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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 is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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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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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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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

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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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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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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 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 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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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