Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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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Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Doren, Carl Van

A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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.

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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Johnson

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

Socrates

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Smith, Adam

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Terence