Man Quotes

Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original stock, they would find more than one instructive parallel to the case of the longest domesticated of all species, man.

~ Asa Gray

Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire.

~ Steve Maraboli

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

~ Georges-Louis Leclerc

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.

~ W.k. Marriott

Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.

~ Sophie Kinsella

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

~ Malcolm X

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

~ Steven James

A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

~ Kyle Barger

No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.

~ Andy Paula

Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.

~ James Hervey Johnson

Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.

~ Max Wertheimer

I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I could witness yours, take you with me into the depths. When I let this hate free, I am almost overcome by it, but I cannot change this and do not really know how it could be otherwise. Let no one deprecate this, nor fool himself about the power of such hatred. Hate drives to reality. Hate is the father of the action. The way out of our defiled and desecrated house is through the command to hate Satan. Only so will be earn the right to search in the darkness for the way of love.In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers.

~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the station, and which was hardly built with such loads in mind, sat a massive figure who appeared even more enormous by virtue of the thick overcoat he wore. Everything about him had the effect of extraordinary permanence and solidity: the deep bass voice; the tweed jacket, already, at that time, almost habitual; the appetite at dinner; and at night, the truly Cyclopean snoring, loud as a series of buzz saws, which frightened the other guests at my Chiemgau country house out of their peaceful slumbers.

~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.

~ Jemmy Wiratama

the onus of Connecting rightly, Conceiving brightly, Conveying quietly, and Concluding wisely are the capatencies (capacity and competence) of man

~ Priyavrat Thareja

I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.

~ Tana French

Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.

~ Felix Salten

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

~ Richard Puz

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

What do you want? What do you know about it? What are you talking about? Everything belongs to Him, just as I do. But I, I love Him. I worship Him, I serve Him. Do you think you can oppose Him, poor creatures like you? He's all-powerful. He's above all of you. Everything we have comes from Him. Everything that lives or grows comes from Him.

~ Felix Salten

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

~ Edwin Way Teale

A married man is a preoccupied man.

~ Heather Day Gilbert

...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

~ George Macdonald

You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God’s perfection. Man was imperfect only because of his inability to live life as a continuous act of love.

~ Michael Puttonen

And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.

~ John Steinbeck

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” - The Narrator.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.All things are connected like the blood that unites one family.Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.The earth is sacred and men and animals are but one part of it.Treat the earth with respect so that it lasts for centuries to come and is a place of wonder and beauty for our children.

~ Extract From Chief Seattle.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

~ Heraclitus

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

If a man is proud of you in public, he will always be proud of you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.

~ Julianne Donaldson

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221

~ Deborrah Cooper

To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in his essence, to all those who wish to take him as their starting-point in their attempts to reach the truth, to all those who, on the other hand, refer all knowledge back to the truths of man himself, to all those who refuse to formalize without anthropologizing, who refuse to mythologize without demystifying, who refuse to think without immediately thinking that it is man who is thinking, to all these warped and twisted forms of reflection we can answer only with a philosophical laugh – which means, to a certain extent, a silent one.

~ Michel Foucault

I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well.

~ Glenn Beck

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.

~ Plato