Men Quotes
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.Johann von Goethe
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.Dandemis
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
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
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.Richard Adams
Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.Wilfred Sheed
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.This Is Spinal Tap
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.Pliny the Elde
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - Men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.The Book of Joshua 6: 21
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.Woodrow Wilson
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.William Shakespeare
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.John 1335 Bible
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.Alice Walke
The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.U. S. vs Cruikshan
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise Pascal
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.Kim Hubbard
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people - Centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
