Quotes
Quotes about Man
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Every man is the son of his own works.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
But man, proud man,
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
