Anthropologists Quote by Martin Buber

In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science,…

— Martin Buber

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive…

— Anonymous

A man who views the world the same...

— Muhammad Ali

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

— Swami Vivekananda

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

— Bob Phillips

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact…

— Francis Bacon

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

— Steven Pinker

A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone,…

— John Vaillant

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the…

— Charles Caleb Colton