It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)… — Charles Churchill 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
Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of… — Jimmy Sangster Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why? — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. — James Conrad Copy Share Image
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings. — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image