The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image