To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal,… — Kenneth G. Elzinga Copy Share Image
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method… — Ouida Copy Share Image
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment -… — David Packard Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
“What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill… — Peyton J Glenn Copy Share Image
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn Copy Share Image
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not… — Sallust Copy Share Image
How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image