Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humankind

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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.

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

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

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Smith, Adam

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

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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Caddy, Eileen

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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?