Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Sumner, Charles

Best Quotes about Humankind

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

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

Bible

[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

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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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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

14.

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

Rogers, Will

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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 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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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

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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

28.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

29.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

35.

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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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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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

39.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

48.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.