Ordinary Man Quotes
Ordinary Man Quote of the day
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
![Ordinary Man Quotes: "The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations1025/The-decision-to-do-it-play-Maigret-1025413.jpg)
The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.
