Men Quotes
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.Max Webe
Boys will be boys... and so will most men.Jean R. Langley
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.Stephen Jay Gould
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.Robert F. Bennett
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.Charles de Montesquieu
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.Henry David Thoreau
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.Che
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.Anais Nin
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
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
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.Napoleon Bonaparte
Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.Tom Rose
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.Captain J. A. Hadfield
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.Johnson
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.Robert Sternberg
Great men are not always wise.Biblical Prove
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.Dandemis
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.Henry Adams
When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.Venita Cravens
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.Malcolm S. Forbes
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.H. L. Mencken
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.Willa Sibert Cathe
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
