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Quotes About Humanity

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.
~ Stephen Hawking
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
~ Tim Lebbon
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
~ George Crabbe
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
~ Voltaire
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
~ Katharine Hepburn
God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil
~ Sunday Adelaja
Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.
~ Raphael Zernoff
The source of man is in man, and when a man dies, millions of men die in him.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
~ James Russell Lowell
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
~ Albert Einstein
You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
~ Nelson Mandela
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?
~ Janusz Korczak
This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
~ Barack Obama
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
~ William Zinsser
What is genius or courage without a heart?
~ Oliver Goldsmith
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
~ Mark Twain
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
~ Richard Leakey
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
~ E. O. Wilson
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.
~ N. T. Wright
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
~ Henri Nouwen
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.
~ Arthur Keith
I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.
~ Jared Leto
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
~ Pete Seeger