Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bible

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

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

13.

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

Doren, Carl Van

14.

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

15.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

16.

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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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

18.

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

Socrates

19.

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

Dante Alighieri

20.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

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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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

31.

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

32.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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.

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

43.

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

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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