Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Rolf, Ida P.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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

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

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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 is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Calvino, Italo

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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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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Gide, Andre

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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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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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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Kant, Immanuel