Man Quotes - page 15

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
A politician ... is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. View quote
James A. Garfield
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. View quote
James A. Garfield
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. (Albert Camus)
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. View quote
E. B. White
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. View quote
Kenneth Clark
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. View quote
David Hume
The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span. View quote
Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. View quote
Francis Bacon
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. (Helen Keller)
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. View quote
John Steinbeck
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. View quote
Duke Ellington
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. View quote
Jim Carrey
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. View quote
Bob Marley