Humanity Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Humanity
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The 3 Rs that Plague Humanity:
Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
I am one of those who think like Nobel,
that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
- Marie Curie
If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human Sayings
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Whenever I look at a human face,
I say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
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