Men Quotes
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
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 of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.