Quotes
Quotes about Man
Man will not live without answers to his questions.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
