Man Quotes

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

~ George Gurdjieff

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

~ Carl Jung

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

~ Konrad Lorenz

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!

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

~ Toussaint Louverture

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

~ P. J. O'rourke

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

~ Peter Diamandis

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

~ Buffalo Bill

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

~ Thiruvalluvar

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

~ Daniel D. Palmer

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

~ Carlos Castañeda

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

~ James Smithson

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

~ James Thurber

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

~ French Montana

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

~ George William Curtis

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

~ Philip James Bailey

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

~ Thomas Wolfe

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

~ Mark Twain

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

~ Lascelles Abercrombie

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

~ E. T. A. Hoffmann

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

~ P. T. Barnum

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

~ Aeschylus

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

~ Richard Russo

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

~ Maurice Chevalier

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

~ Raul Julia

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

~ D. H. Lawrence

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

~ Charles De Secondat

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

~ Max Weber

Every experience makes you a man.

~ Eric Cantona

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

~ Peter Shaffer

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

~ Bruce Lee

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

~ George S. Patton

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

~ Henry Ford

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

~ H. L. Mencken

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

~ Eugene O'neill

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

~ Brendan Behan