Quotes
Quotes about Men
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
If a person is obviously mentally disabled, such as having Down's syndrome or Alzheimer's, decent people exercise sympathy and understanding in their interactions. So why, if someone merely has a low IQ, is he treated with ridicule and contempt?
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
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.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
All zoos actually offer the public, in return for the taxes spent upon them, is a form of idle witless amusement, compared to which a visit to the state penitentiary, or even a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
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.
There is a pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know.
What is called discretion in men is called cunning in animals.
