Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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.

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

Mead, Margaret

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.

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Rogers, Will

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.

30.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Smith, Adam

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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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Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

Fischer, Ernst

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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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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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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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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

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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Murdoch, Iris

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Einstein, Albert

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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