The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done.
—Laozi
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
—Voltaire
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
Men argue. Nature acts.
—Voltaire
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
—Isaac Newton
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
—Voltaire
I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.
—D. L. Moody
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
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal – at cards.
—Nikolai Gogol
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
—Nikolai Gogol
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
—George Washington
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
—Michelangelo
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
—Nikolai Gogol
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
No one can truly recognize the equality of people in life as well as children can. So how criminal it is for adults to teach them that there are kings, rich men & celebrities whom you must respect, and servants, workers and beggars whom you’re allowed to treat with condescension.
—Leo Tolstoy
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
—Michelangelo
“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
—Marcus Aurelius
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
—George Orwell
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
—Thomas Aquinas
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
—Voltaire
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
—Georg Hegel
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
—Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
—Aldous Huxley