Quotes about men
men effort age
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon. Ralph Waldo Emerson
men people mind
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
men laziness idle
That man is idle who can do something better.
men discovery ignorant
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
men differences forgiving
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
men society
When a man meets his make, society begins.
men debt pay
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
men thinking feet
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
men exaggeration-is generosity
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.
men exaggeration-is personality
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
men keys sturdy
The key to every man is his thought.
men law sap
The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
men animal turtles
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will ; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.
men knives self
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
men thinking degenerates
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
men thinking virtue
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
men liberty want
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
men voice mind
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
men world action
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
men animal ideas
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
men temples facade
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
men use remember
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
men pay dear
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
men giving curiosity
The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity
men higher-ground wells
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
men discovery aids
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
men good-man wells
He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
men skills one-direction
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
men heaven every-man
Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
men might great-men
Great men exist that there might be greater men.
men diaries graves
Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
men evil language
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
men names feet
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.