Men Quotes

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.