Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Williams, Tennessee

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.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Miller, Henry

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.

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

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

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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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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.

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A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Smith, Adam

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.