Sapiens Quotes

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most...

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is deg...

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible ...

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of p...

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

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pe...

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his...

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

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Men are cruel but man is kind.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from g...

The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.

We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every poi...

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

I am a man nothing human is alien to me.

Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!

Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will tre...

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

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone amo...

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference ...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the differ...

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

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart t...

Man an animal that makes bargains.

Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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

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

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents n...

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

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

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

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

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception i...

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

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

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

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

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

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this w...

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to ...

Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always sign...

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity th...