Men Quotes
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...Antoine Laurent Lavoisie
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.Robert Lynd
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.Alexander Osborn
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.Thomas Jefferson
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.C. C. Colton
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.Hubert Humphrey
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.Sophocles, Ajax
Culture makes all men gentle.Menande
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.Jorge Luis Borges
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.William Ashley
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.Luis Cernada
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.Alexander Pope
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.Charles Schwa
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.Saint Bernard
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.Thomas Paine
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
