Man Quotes
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I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.
Chris Kilmore Incubus -
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake -
[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
R. M. Williams -
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
Albert Einstein -
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
Alex Blackwell -
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.
Jared Sparks
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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides -
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
Aristotle -
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man prepared has half fought the battle.
Miguel de Cervantes -
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte -
I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake -
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Aristotle
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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
Confucius -
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S Truman -
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
John Stuart Mill