Quotes about men
men promise delight
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson
men conceited may
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
men intelligence definitions
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
men secret crime
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
men light giving
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
men copernicus kind
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
men two world
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.
men feet giving
Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
men trying honest
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.
men limits interest
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
men law liberty
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.
men hearing majority
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
men purpose doe
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
men unhappy lord
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
men invention should
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
men facts window
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
men ideas secret
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
men imagination talent
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
men space one-direction
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
men saving-the-earth mother-earth
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
men race politics
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
men orbs psychological
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
men misfits metaphysical
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
men talent mankind
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
men law wells
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
men experience world
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
men apples experience
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
men faults talent
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
men poverty greatest-man
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
men greatness great-men
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
men limits blind
I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.
men garden hands
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
men slavery monkeys
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.