Mankind Quotes - Page 4

• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Views, Attention

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Couple, Tired, World

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• The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

  Margaret Atwood

  Study

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.212, Anchor

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• As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Good Man

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Sept. 1783)

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• Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

  Christopher Paolini

  Book, Choices, Understanding

  Teenreads.com Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. September 2003.

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  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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• So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

  Homer

  Patience, Fate, Soul

  Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Signet

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• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Satyagraha, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Weather, Human Nature, Should

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• More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creating, Brain, Evolution

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Independent, Civilization

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• Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, War, Men

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Truth, Future, Spirit

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.245, Henry Holt and Company

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• God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Bounty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• ...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Respect, Animal

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• Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Breathing

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.5156, Delphi Classics

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• Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

  Men, Seems

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

  William Ralph Inge

  Believe, Men, People

  More Lay Thoughts of a Dean (1931) pt. 4, ch. 1

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