Man Quotes
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
Soren Kierkegaard
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So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
Mika
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
Socrates
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
Albert Einstein
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No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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A man of the utmost insignificance.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
Adolf Hitler
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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
John Milton
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The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Plutarch
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
Hippolyte Taine
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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
Thomas Aquinas
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Good habits in America make any man rich.
John Jacob Astor
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
Neel Burton
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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
Henry Ward Beecher
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My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.
Padma Subrahmanyam
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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
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
Robert Frost
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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
Confucius
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If we want to pick the point where a man’s sexual appeal has reached its limit, it’s there: forty.
Christian Rudder
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If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
Gary Player