Mankind Quote by Benjamin Franklin

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

— Tacitus

Wouldnt it be nice if the world was flat? That way we could just push off the people we dont like.

— Jeremy G

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted,…

— Ellen G. White

People generally despise where they flatter

— Aristotle

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

— Mariella Frostrup

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

— Georg Simmel

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

— Kobo Abe

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing…

— J. Carter Brown

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and…

— Steven Pinker

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create…

— Eyvind Johnson