Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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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Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Terence

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Calvino, Italo

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

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

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

Lessing, Doris

11.

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

12.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Smith, Adam

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What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Mayhew, Dr Edward

18.

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

19.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Murdoch, Iris

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

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

Canetti, Elias

28.

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.

29.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

31.

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

32.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

33.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

34.

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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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 human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Twain, Mark

40.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

41.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Smith, Adam

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Rolf, Ida P.

45.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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