Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Bible

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

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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 history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

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

Smith, Adam

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Adam

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

Reagan, Ronald

47.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage