Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

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.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hoffer, Eric

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

12.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Socrates

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

Walters, J. Donald

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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.

20.

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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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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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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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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 is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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

30.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Bible

35.

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

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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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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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 true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

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

Caddy, Eileen

43.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Turkish

49.

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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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