Man Quotes
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers.
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What man is, only his history tells.
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A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.
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My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
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One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
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I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Mind the dead man, my dear.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
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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.
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Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
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Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.
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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
