Motivational Quotes

Humankind

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Smith, Adam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Lessing, Doris

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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

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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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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There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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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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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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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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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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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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

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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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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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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