Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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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Best Quotes about Humankind

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

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

Twain, Mark

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

Einstein, Albert

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.

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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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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

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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.)

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Smith, Adam

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Williams, Tennessee

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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

Terence

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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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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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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

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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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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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

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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.

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

Caddy, Eileen

49.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.