Quotes About Humanity

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

Why are people so unkind?

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

All new news is old news happening to new people

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.