Quotes
Quotes about Men
Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature...is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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 now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check.
I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
