Sapiens Quotes

The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.

~ Kenneth Grahame

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

~ Benjamin Franklin

God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.

~ William Shakespeare

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.

~ Anonymous

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.

~ Henry George

Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

~ James Baldwin

People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.

~ Bertolt Brecht

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

~ William Faulkner

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

~ Henry Hewes

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

~ Euripides

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.

~ William Osier

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

~ Douglas Mcgregor

The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but his chief business in life is to pay.

~ William Graham Sumner

Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

~ William Hazlitt

Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.

~ William Shakespeare

Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.

~ William Saroyan

The voice is a second signature.

~ R. I. Fitzhenry

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.

~ George Santayana

Know then thyself presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.

~ Alexander Pope

Man an animal that makes bargains.

~ Adam Smith

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

~ Robert B. Hamilton

Man will ever stand in need of man.

~ Theocritus

We are members one of another.

~ Bible

Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

~ Blaise Pascal

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

~ William Hazlitt

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

~ William Wordsworth

Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

~ Lord Byron

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.

~ Martin Esslin

If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.

~ Chinese Proverb

Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

~ Wernher Von Braun

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

~ John Steinbeck

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

~ John F. Kennedy

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

~ George Santayana

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

~ Anthony Storr

Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and never again.

~ Hermann Hesse

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

~ Charles Lamb

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

~ Ernest Renan