Men Quotes

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - - A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.

John Updike

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Paul Goodman

I can live two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Jesus

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Harry S. Truman

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sir William Osle

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilfred Peterson