Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Robert, Fulghum

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Rogers, Will

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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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 a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Adam

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

Sumner, Charles

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Dahlberg, Edward

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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