Man Quotes - page 99

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. (Henry David Thoreau)
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. Walden. (Henry David Thoreau)
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
No man ever followed his genius til it misled him. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?... If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. View quote
George Eliot
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. (George Eliot)
So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. View quote
George Eliot
. . . it was the last weakness he meant to indulge in and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. View quote
George Eliot
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. View quote
George Eliot
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon. View quote
George Eliot