Men Quotes

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei, The Assaye

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.

Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band - Aid remedies never last.

Jack Nicklaus

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

Tanielle Naus

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Sivanada

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Gloria Allred

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

William Bull Halsey

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - - No less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh