Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Woolman

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

John Wooden

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

John Wooden

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

John Wooden

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

John Ruskin

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

John Ruskin

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

John Ruskin

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

John Ruskin

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

John Ruskin

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray are the things that make men happy.

John Ruskin

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

John Ruskin

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

John Ruskin

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

John Ruskin

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

George Washington

You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them

Tyrus Thomas

You've got to have the mentality it's like a battle. He wins, you die.

And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

And now, for what you've been waiting for, I'll mention the word Falconbridge.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Eric Holder

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man,

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

Eric Hoffer

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

Eric Hoffer

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Mortimer Adler

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

Mortimer Adler

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Mortimer Adler

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adler

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

Paulo Freire

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Paulo Freire

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Paulo Freire

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.