Quotes
Quotes about Man
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill].
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
