Men Quotes

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Henry david thoreau - must be out - of - doors enough to get experience...
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daniel webste - good intentions will always be pleaded for every...
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. On Vietnam Wa.
Charles De Gaulle
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Gelett Burgess
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
Francis Quarles
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
Kahlil Gibran
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Eugene McCarthy
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
J. Michael Straczynski
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
Bernard Iddings Bell
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fulle
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
Mary Lyon
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Bull Halsey
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
C. J. Jung
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Ingersoll
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.
Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles De Gaulle
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.
Katherine Hepburn
Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
Joseph Weizenbaum