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Quotes about Man


Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Scott Adams

It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Albert Schweitzer

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Josh Billings

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

Alice Walker

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert V. Prochnow

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Kierkegaard

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

Ilka Chase

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

Jack Woodford

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men.

Kahlil Gibran

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well -Amish saying

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Montaigne

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Martin Luther King

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles Schwab

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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