Quotes
Quotes about Man
To measure the man, measure his heart.
All of us are watchersâof television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freewayâbut few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
No man is free who is not a master of himself.
"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
