Man Quotes
-
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
George Bernard Shaw
-
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise Pascal
-
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
Anthony Trollope
-
In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
-
He who does not move with the times is a dead man...
Vicki Baum
-
I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.
Amy Poehler
-
A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."
James Keller
-
The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
Lao Tzu
-
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
Thomas A. Edison
-
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
Heraclitus
-
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.
Lao Tzu
-
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
Abraham Lincoln
-
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
George Bernard Shaw
-
The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.
Confucius
-
Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'
Abu Abbas
-
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar Wilde
-
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw
-
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
Plato
-
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
Rudyard Kipling
-
I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe