Man Quotes

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.