Quotes
Quotes about Man
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of lifeâthis is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
If a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
