Quotes
Quotes about Man
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
In death the many become one; in life the one become many.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
