Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about… — James St. James Copy Share Image
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by… — Ernest Starling Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. — Clara Lucas Balfour Copy Share Image
“While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move — Proverb Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind. — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
![“Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and…” quote by Ernest Starling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e56/ernest-starling-88442_body_only-by-following-out-the-injunction-of_1266565.jpg)
