Man Quotes

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.