Humankind Quotes

73 quotations about Humankind
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida P. Rolf · Humankind
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute · Humankind
Man is a useless passion.
Jean-Paul Sartre · Humankind
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Humankind
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Friedrich Schlegel · Humankind
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Charles M. Schulz · Humankind
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw · Humankind
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith · Humankind
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
Adam Smith · Humankind
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates · Humankind
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
John Sterling · Humankind
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson · Humankind
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Charles Sumner · Humankind
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence · Humankind
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Mark Twain · Humankind
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain · Humankind
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain · Humankind
There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.
Source Unknown · Humankind
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman · Humankind
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Oscar Wilde · Humankind
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde · Humankind
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Oscar Wilde · Humankind
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams · Humankind

Authors on Humankind

Henry Brooks Adams Konrad Adenauer Roy Chapman Andrews Aristotle Francis Bacon R. M. Baumgardy Henry Ward Beecher Bible Eileen Caddy Italo Calvino Elias Canetti Thomas Carlyle Miguel De Cervantes Pierre Teilhard De Chardin E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings Dante Alighieri Carl Van Doren Fyodor Dostoevsky Albert Einstein Ralph Waldo Emerson