The Man Quotes
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
God will bless you and your marriage when you follow His blueprint.
