Men Quotes
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.Claude Bernard
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.Niccolo Machiavelli
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.Ghandi
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.John Christian Bovee
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken
All general statements are false.Unknown, The Ultimate Law
Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.James Harvey Robinson
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.Anon.
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.Madame Chiang
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.Colton
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.Publilius Syrus
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.Robin Williams
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.American Prove
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on earth.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.William Osle
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.George Bernard Shaw
The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.Kahlil Gibran
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.Lincoln Steffens
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
