Best Human Race Sayings

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That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Ovid
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three… — Bertrand Russell
Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. — Swami Vivekananda
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken
Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in… — Pope Pius XII
There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. — Giambattista Vico
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's… — Robert Burns
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. — Mark Twain
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!"… — Steven Pressfield
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the… — Ellsworth Huntington
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude… — Herbert Spencer
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell

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