Man Quotes

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.