Humanity
Albert Einstein on Humanity
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Frank Zappa on the Mind
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Cynical Quote
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
George Bernard Shaw on History
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
George C. Marshall on Peace
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
Joseph Conrad on Evil
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
George Orwell on Society
“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
Aldous Huxley on Humanity
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
Voltaire on History and Crime
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
Stephen Hawking on Science
“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Future
“The future lies in the strength with which people can set their powers of creation against their impulses for destruction. Perhaps this is the unending frontier.”
Stephen Jay Gould on Science
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
Henry David Thoreau Cynical Quote
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Scott Adams Cynical Quote
“You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.”
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”
William Hazlitt on Humanity
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
Millard Fuller on Community
“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.”
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Mark Twain on Desire
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”
Louise Beal on Society
“Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.”
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
Jose Marti on Suffering
“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
John F. Kennedy on Power
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
Albert Einstein on Technology & Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”