Quotes
Quotes about Man
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.
The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move!
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
All a man can betray is his conscience.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
