Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Gide, Andre

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Weil, Simone

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

Kant, Immanuel

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Socrates

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

10.

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.

11.

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

Steinbeck, John

12.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

19.

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

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Murdoch, Iris

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Calvino, Italo

26.

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

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

27.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Adam

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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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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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Smith, Adam

45.

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

Sumner, Charles

46.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Twain, Mark