Man Quotes
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
Plutarch -
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles -
Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.
George Hackenschmidt -
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
Nikolai Gogol -
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Albert Einstein
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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
Stephen Pagliuca -
What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.
Michael Faraday -
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
Galileo Galilei -
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell -
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.
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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
Confucius -
I decline to accept the end of man.
Charles Faulkner -
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
Henry Ward Beecher -
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Joseph Conrad -
If a man feared defeat, he would never give battle... Every victory is inevitably succeeded by defeat. It is the nature of our lives. A man might fight a thousand battles and emerge triumphant from every one; still, he will suffer defeat in the end, for we die and we are forgotten. If we cannot face defeat, we must live always, throughout our lives, in fear. For it awaits us all.
Brian Ruckley -
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
Apostolos Doxiadis
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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
Lao Tzu -
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
Confucius -
His constant fight is with the Nafs self-interest, the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.
Hazrat Inayat Khan