Man Quotes
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.
Aristotle -
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Baruch Spinoza
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
Victor Hugo -
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Thomas A. Edison -
I feel as a woman of color, I just don't want my art to be owned by a white man.
Noname -
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
Eugene Ionesco -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
Donald Miller -
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
Dante Alighieri -
Wait till you’ve washed and scrubbed for a man for ten or twelve years.
Christina Stead -
The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.
Brother Yun -
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw -
When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
Charles Fletcher Dole
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Like the rich man, they can have so many things right for so long and sometimes at the end they can lose it all because of one wrong decision.
J. M. Roberts -
Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
Albert Einstein -
When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.
Brian Ruckley -
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
Silvio Berlusconi -
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Francis Bacon -
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
Confucius -
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Henry Ward Beecher