Man Quotes

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.