Man Quotes
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The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.
Adolf Hitler
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They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
Iris Johansen
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
Socrates
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Will you be my love? Will you go with me? Are you who I dreamed or just a memory? Will you understand what I have to do? Will you be the man, the one I thought I knew?
Beatrice Miller
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When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
Confucius
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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
Homer
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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Arnold Haultain
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
Michael Faraday
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Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man.
Abdullah Ibrahim
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The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
Harpo Marx
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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
Amadou Hampate Ba
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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug
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But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
Michael Jackson
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
Henry Ward Beecher
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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
Victor Hugo
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No man can judge before the end.
R. M. Williams
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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Harold Kushner
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Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
Christine de Pizan
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
Tim Page