Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Smith, Adam

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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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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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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

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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 age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Sumner, Charles

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Dante Alighieri

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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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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.

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

Terence

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

Twain, Mark

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.