Quotes about men
men thinking professors
Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. Randall Jarrell
men six lightning
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
men alive pieces
Man is a piece of the universe made alive Ralph Waldo Emerson
men gossip hypocrisy
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
men light self-reliance
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
men use unions
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
men appreciate understanding
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
men originality range
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
men tragedy frugality
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
men faults needs
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
men lazy laziness
Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
men revelations highest
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
men expression america
God established patriarchy when he established the world. God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have true reformation in America, it is because men once again, if I may use a worn out expression, have righteous testosterone flowing through their veins. They are not afraid of the contempt of their contemporaries. They are not here to get along. They are not even here to take issue. They are here to take over! Randall Terry
men people materials
I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material. Randeep Hooda
men giving dollars
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
men essentials action
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
men parent flow
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
men self history
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
men thinking civilization
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.
men may half
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.
men civilization people
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
men kind trifles
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
men astrology earth
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
men thinking names
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
men long needs
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
men crowds vote
Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
men cities materials
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
men criticism reviews
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.
men credit gains
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
men ideas air
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
men bores tedious
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
men youth affection
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
men differences force
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.