Men Quotes

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

We cannot learn men from books.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Study men, not historians.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.