What Is Man Quotes

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The great object is that every man be armed.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

He who fears God fears no man.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Beware the man of the single book

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.