Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Johnson

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Bible

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Barry, Dave

15.

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

Dante Alighieri

16.

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

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Socrates

23.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

24.

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

25.

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Calvino, Italo

32.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

36.

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

Smith, Adam

37.

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.

38.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

Caddy, Eileen

43.

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

44.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

Sumner, Charles

47.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.