Man Quotes

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.