Humanity Quotes

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really

~ Marianne Williamson

Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first—and lost—home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want.

~ Dean Koontz

Our mind cannot be without fear and our head cannot be held high when we become slaves to materialistic values , always wondering why my car is not bigger and better than my neighbours car and in that process forget our human values like dignity, humility , integrity and humanity.

~ Jeroninio Almeida

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

~ Carl Sagan

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

~ Mia Couto

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

~ Oscar Wilde

New Orleans, the storm, Perry, the river: they all reminded me not to take anything for granted. It all washes away, and we are all washed away with it. So when then ground is steady and the sky is clear, we should breathe deep until our lungs inflate against our ribs and hold in that one breath until we are lightheaded with the privilege of being human. The absolute privilege of being human.

~ Jacob Tomsky

As I squeeze, he turns his head, and there is the tiniest, slimmest of moments when he sees me. I look into those wolf eyes, and even though they are empty, they're still alive. In that split second he is alive and looking at me. I am alive and looking at him. Then the moment is over, the trigger is pulled back, and the gun is empty.

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.

~ Marilynne Robinson

One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vistas provide us with new perspectives. Sometimes, if we are fortunate, those other worlds turn out to have more points of familiarity with our own than we had thought. Sometimes we make connections back to familiar territory and when we have returned, we do so supplied with new perspectives, which enrich our lives as scholars and enhance our role as teachers. Sometimes the experience takes us beyond our immediate lives as scholars and teachers, and the library produces this result particularly when it functions as the storehouse of memory, a treasury whose texts connect us through time to all huma

~ Richard F. Thomas

In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not possibly understand it. The example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal-- had seemed to him all his life to be correct only in relation to Caius, but by no means himself. For the man Caius, man in general, it was perfectly correct; but he was not Caius and not man in general, he had always been quite, quite separate from all other human beings...And Caius is indeed mortal, and it's right that he die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilyich, with all my feelings and thoughts-- for me it's another matter. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too terrible.So it felt to him.

~ Leo Tolstoy

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

~ Germany Kent

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

~ Victor Robert Lee

The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.

~ T.a. Uner

In life things are only free after you've paid for them.

~ T.a. Uner

It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.

~ Felix Wantang

This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.

~ Rick Yancey

Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

~ William Golding

But free will is what it means to be human, and no one can determine the path you take through this universe. Choice is our greatest right, our greatest gift-and our greatest responsibility.

~ Amie Kaufman

Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.

~ Anum Sattar

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

~ C. Terry Warner

Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth.--A Letter to Jesse Owens

~ Luz Long

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Teach me to speak the language of men.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

~ Carl Sagan

The shortest distance between two people is a story.

~ Patti Digh

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

~ Nikola Tesla

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

~ Auliq Ice

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.

~ Andrew Solomon

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.

~ Luther Burbank

The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was infinite, but it was also embedded in – if this was possible! – an even more infinite universe of all things to write about. It was like seeing the Grand Canyon from outer space – a huge gorge that looked like a thin trickle, impossible to miss, hard to hit.

~ Marcus Speh

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

~ Victor Lavalle

Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is the atmosphere in which humanity thrives. Breathe it in.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich