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- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"
- Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.
- R. E. Hellmund, 1929
- Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
- Henry G. Stott, 1907
- Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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