“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams

“People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?” Oliver Wendell Holmes

“It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.” Henry Allen

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.” Stephen R. Covey

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” Albert Einstein

“Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.” R. M. Baumgardy

“Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.” Francis Bacon

“The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.” Muhammad Yunus

“Man is an ape with possibilities.” Roy Chapman Andrews

“There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.” Desmond Morris

“Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.” R. M. Baumgardy

“We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.” Anon.

“Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.” Jeanette Desor

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

“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 R. Krutch

“There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.” Walter S. Landor

“The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.” William Osler

“Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” Blaise Pascal

“Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.” George Santayana

“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.” Mark Twain

“Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” Kalan

“I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.” Friedrich Holderlin