Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Caddy, Eileen

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.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Sumner, Charles

10.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

16.

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

17.

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

Doren, Carl Van

18.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Turkish

21.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

28.

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

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

31.

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

Smith, Adam

32.

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

33.

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

Dante Alighieri

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Smith, Adam

36.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

41.

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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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

48.

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

Calvino, Italo

49.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

50.

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