Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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.

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

Mead, Margaret

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.

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

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

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

Smith, Adam

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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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.

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

France, Anatole

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

15.

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

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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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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Terence

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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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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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Smith, Adam