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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Humankind

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Socrates

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson

12.

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

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

Williams, Tennessee

15.

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

16.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

17.

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

18.

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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.

24.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

25.

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

Doren, Carl Van

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Caddy, Eileen

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

31.

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

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

34.

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

36.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

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

Canetti, Elias

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

42.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

43.

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

44.

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

45.

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

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

Dante Alighieri

47.

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

48.

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

Calvino, Italo

49.

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