Mankind Quotes
3075 Mankind quotes by 1527 unique authors
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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the…
— William Buckland
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Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be…
— Unknown Author
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This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it,…
— Frank Robinson
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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
— Richard Owen
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It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
— Malcolm Potts
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This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than…
— Margaret E. Knight
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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.…
— King Hussein I
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the…
— James A. Garfield
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
— Albert Einstein
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these…
— Plutarch
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...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
— Gottlob Frege
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There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.
— St. Germain
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death…
— Bede Griffiths
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All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.…
— Corinne Heline
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The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The…
— Pope John Paul II
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You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or…
— Pope Paul VI
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread…
— John Ruskin
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... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of…
— Alfred Tarski
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
— Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
— John Tillotson
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The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is…
— George William Curtis
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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