Motivational Quotes

Humankind

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

- Morris, Desmond

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Sumner, Charles

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

France, Anatole

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

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

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

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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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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, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Bacon, Francis

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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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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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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 history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

32.

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

Bible

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Dante Alighieri

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

45.

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.

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

Adenauer, Konrad