Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Sumner, Charles

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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.

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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Twain, Mark

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Barry, Dave

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Calvino, Italo

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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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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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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Caddy, Eileen

36.

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smith, Adam

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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

Bible

49.

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

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

Doren, Carl Van