Quotes
Quotes about Man
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
A man there was, tho' some did count him mad
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
If any man wishes to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Walking is man's best medicine.
