Men Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

William Carlos Williams

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

Saint Bernard

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Wilfred Sheed

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

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

Pearl Bailey

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

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

Pietro Aretino

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

G. K. Chesterton

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Archibald Alexande

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

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence