Jacob Bronowski Quotes
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Quotes to Explore
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
