Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Sumner, Charles

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Proverb, Turkish

14.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

15.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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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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The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

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

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

26.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Socrates

28.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Reik, Theodor

29.

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

30.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

31.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

32.

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

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Johnson

34.

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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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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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Ruskin, John

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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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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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

40.

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

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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.

42.

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.

43.

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

Bible

44.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

45.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

46.

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

Caddy, Eileen

48.

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

49.

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hoffer, Eric