Men Quotes
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.Albert Einstein
Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles, Antigone
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.Samuel Johnson
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.Hippocrates, Law
By the work one knows the workmen.Jean De La Fontaine
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.Robert A. Heinlein
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.Robert F. Kennedy
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.Hiram Powers
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.Elaine Richards
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
Why think? Why not try the experiment?John Hunte
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.Alexander Pope
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Julius Henry Marx
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.Mark Twain
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.Henry David Thoreau
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.Anonymous
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.Joseph Conrad
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Lord Chesterfield
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.T. S. Eliot
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.Fred Allen
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.William Powell
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Fun has a sacred dimension.Adriana Diaz
