Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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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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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

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Murdoch, Iris

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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

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

Doren, Carl Van

18.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Twain, Mark

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

25.

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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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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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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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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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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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Socrates

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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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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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