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Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. — Dale Carnegie

The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world. — Rumi

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. — Henry Adams

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. — Sydney J. Harris

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

A man only got one shot at declaring himself to his true love; he didn't want to muck it up completely. — Julia Quinn

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor. — Theodore Roosevelt

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself. — Jules Renard

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth — Charlotte Bronte

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. — Laurence Sterne

Don't interrupt a man when he's giving himself hell. — Elmore Leonard

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

No man is hurt but by himself — Diogenes Of Sinope

A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason — Lucinda Brant

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer. — Joyce Carol Oates

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity. — Ernesto Che Guevara

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. — Benjamin Disraeli

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost. — George Jean Nathan

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time. — Robert Morley

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. — Ernest Hemingway,

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him. — Otto Weininger

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God. — Howard G. Hendricks

man lies to himself a lot. — G.I. Gurdjieff

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. — Samuel Butler

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others. — David O. McKay

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. — Simone De Beauvoir

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room. — Frank Herbert

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. — Karl Marx

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must. — Alex Faickney Osborn

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. — Karl Marx

The greatest of all enemies of man is himself — Paramahansa Yogananda

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. — Edward Gibbon

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself — Jan Smuts

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves. — John Calvin

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. — Robert Southey

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it. — Cesar Chavez

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? — Lin Yutang

24. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. — Anonymous

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. — Helen Rowland

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured. — Jeremy Irons

Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross. — Anonymous

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself. — Saint Augustine

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people. — L. Frank Baum

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

that deed and word should be in accord, that a man should be equal to himself under all conditions, and always the same. — Seneca.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god. — David Zindell

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. — Peter Latham

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. — Robert E.Lee

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. — William Hazlitt

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

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy, — Carl Menger

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin

He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things. — C.S. Lewis

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies. — Anais Nin

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. — A. H. Weiler

Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. — Brian W. Aldiss

If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — G.K. Chesterton

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. — Romain Rolland

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma. — Gautama Buddha

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be. — Stephanie Dray

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. — Plautus

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes. — Samuel Von Pufendorf

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. — Ayn Rand

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe. — Thor Heyerdahl

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. — Plautus

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success. — Ellen Glasgow

If it has to be done, a man - a real man - shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it. — Robert A. Heinlein

The meaning is hidden in man, but it is only man himself who can find it. — Liv-Christine Hoem

Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown — Steve Hilts

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain. — Ignatius Of Loyola

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others. — Confucius

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. — Sigmund Freud

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. — Luis Barragan

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. — Gautama Buddha

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. — Abraham Ibn Ezra

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. — Marcel Pagnol

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. — Nawal El Saadawi

Never trust a man who cannot laugh at himself. — Gabbo De La Parra

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. — Paul Valery

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun. — Sherry Thomas