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Quotes about humanity and our shared human nature. This hand-picked collection brings together 23 of the finest humanity quotes ever written — from Anne Frank, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

— Anne Frank

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

— William Wordsworth

In the faces of men and women I see God.

— Walt Whitman

Man is by nature a social animal.

— Aristotle

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

— Immanuel Kant

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter — humanity's shortest medicine.

To err is human; to forgive, divine — and to learn is the most human of all.

Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.

— John Keats

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

We are all human; we all have our faults, our fears and our hopes.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man.

— Alexander Pope

The purpose of humanity is to strive for the happiness of all, not the perfection of some.

Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

— Mark Twain

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. Respect is universal.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

— Mother Teresa

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

— Albert Camus

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

— William Shakespeare

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

— Alexander Pope

Treat humanity, in your own person or that of another, always as an end, never merely as a means.

— Immanuel Kant

A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race.

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