"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."

Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

Mankind, Writer

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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Mankind, Will

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Mankind, Mind, Obvious

"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

Mankind, Radical

"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Our true nationality is mankind."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Mankind, Nationality

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."

Franz Boas, American Scientist

Mankind, Present

"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."

Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

Mankind,

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

George Gissing, British Novelist

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"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

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"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."

God

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Health

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

Being

"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

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"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."

Love

"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."

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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

"Our true nationality is mankind."

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."

"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

Explore more quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."

"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."

"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."

"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is."