Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Sarraute, Nathalie

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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.

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

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

12.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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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 a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Smith, Adam

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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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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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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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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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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