Men Quotes

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

~ Warren Buffett

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

~ Standing Bear

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

~ Charlotte Brontë

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

~ Ramakrishna

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

~ William Penn

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

~ Ellen G. White

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

~ Jupiter Hammon

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

~ Voltaire

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

~ Xenophanes

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

~ Jean Piaget

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

~ James Monroe

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

~ Erik Erikson

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

~ Zhuangzi

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.

~ Alistair Horne

They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

~ Bahá'u'lláh

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

~ Max Weber

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

~ Francis Bacon

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

~ Strom Thurmond

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

~ Jane Porter

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

~ Michel De Montaigne

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

~ Steve Harvey

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

~ William Dunbar

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

~ David Beckham

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it.

~ Sebastian Maniscalco

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

~ Thomas Hobbes

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

~ Emil Zatopek

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

~ John Stuart Mill

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

~ Blaise Pascal

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

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