Man Quotes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

~ Aldous Huxley

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

~ William Hazlitt

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

~ Edith Hamilton

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

~ Roland Allen

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

~ Socrates

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

~ Billy Graham

One man with courage is a majority.

~ Thomas Jefferson

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

~ Lewis Mumford

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

~ Van Wyck Brooks

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A man of courage is also full of faith.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

~ Joseph Conrad

The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

~ Channing Pollock

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

~ Torquato Tasso

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

~ Euripides

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

~ Jerome Cady

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

~ Orison Swett Marden

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

~ Frances Perkins

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

~ Bertrand Russell

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

~ Orison Swett Marden

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

~ Jesse Ventura

For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.

~ Ehud Olmert

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

~ Harold Pinter

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

~ Pierre Corneille

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

~ Ricky Williams

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

~ John Rhys-Davies

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

~ Tom Reiss

Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.

~ Charlie Cox

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

~ Paul Johnson

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

~ James Allen

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

~ John Eldredge

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

~ Jean Anouilh