Humankind Quotes - Page 10

• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Walking Meditation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hate, Play, Selfishness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.300, Library of America

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• Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Imagination, Feelings

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• Virtue is not always amiable.

  John Adams

  Virtue, Amiable

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.188

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• The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

  Norman Cousins

  Real, America, World

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• Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Character, Giving, Water

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.29, Vintage

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• No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

  Charles Sumner

  Fame, Mankind, Labor

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

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• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

  John Adams

  Motivational, Horse, Exercise

  "Presidential Proverbs: Quotes From U.S. Presidents Past, Present, and Future" by Kevin Daum, www.inc.com. November 09, 2016.

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• Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

  Mark Jenkins

  Motivational, Travel, Kindness

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• Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

  William Ellery Channing

  Volume, Worthy, Humans

  William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.47

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• It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Tree, Feelings

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• Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Pain, Broken

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

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• Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

  Anne Lamott

  Song, Drama, Life Is Like

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.181, Anchor

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• It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.

  Julian Baggini

  Land, Skills, People

  "Why business needs to concentrate on value - not just profit" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

  Desmond Tutu

  Way, Nobel, Obligation

  "The secrets of a peacemaker" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

  George Orwell

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  Shooting an Elephant 'Reflections on Gandhi'

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  There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Engineering, People

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• Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

  Spike Lee

  Film, Endeavor, Hardest

  Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Peaceful, Century

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• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Wish, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.89

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

  Al Franken

  Beautiful, Dad, Views

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• Health to the ocean means health for us.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Mean

  Sylvia A. Earle (2009). “The World Is Blue”, p.257, National Geographic Books

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