Men Quotes

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Continual improvement is an unending journey.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Samuel Johnson

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is the excitement of becoming - Always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again - But always trying and always gaining...

Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Horace

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Joseph Addison

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Asto

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Heraclitus

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Barbara DeAngelis

The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Sue Grafton

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus