
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. —
Michel De Montaigne

N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ... —
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. —
Dorothy Parker

In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there. —
Sun Ra

Yes, madam," he said, with the exceeding politeness of a man who has just imagined raping you. —
Karan Mahajan

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. —
K. Hari Kumar

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. —
Keith Olbermann

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. —
Theodore Roosevelt

A
man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. —
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. —
Douglas William Jerrold

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same. —
Plato

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. —
Khalil Gibran

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God. —
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all ... —
Italo Calvino

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. —
Roberto Bolano

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. —
John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon

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

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. —
Herbert Marcuse

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. —
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. —
Peter Horton

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. —
Harriet Ann Jacobs

And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man. —
Alfred Edward Housman

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. —
James Mackintosh

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. —
Phyllis Bottome

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

If you put a man in the mindset of romance, his mind will start to create those synapses and he'll start taking charge. —
Roberto Hogue

the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them. —
Donald J. Robertson

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. —
Plato

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

The motive of man depicts his soul. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor. —
Felix Wantang

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. —
Benjamin Franklin

Bless you, daugher of man, —
Richelle Mead

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. —
William Butler Yeats

He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another. —
Thomas A Kempis

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man. —
Henry Ward Beecher

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. —
Micah Mattix

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. —
Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right. —
Sakshi Tanwar

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him. —
Christina, Queen Of Sweden

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. —
Owen Feltham

Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. —
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. —
Charles Darwin

Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the
man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. —
Orison Swett Marden

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. —
Naomi Wolf

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely. —
Daniel Quinn

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken. —
Angelina Jolie

He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang. —
Jack London

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. —
John Ruskin

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room. —
Graham Greene

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. —
Michel De Montaigne

The Sin against God's Law Resulted in the Fall of Man —
Sunday Adelaja

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. —
Samuel Smiles

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. —
Robin Hobb

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. —
Candace Bushnell

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much ... —
Aiden Wilson Tozer

The beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it. —
Marie Corelli

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. —
Henry David Thoreau

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. —
Robert Louis Stevenson

His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. —
Edith Wharton

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. —
David Lilienthal

The graveyard is an everlasting home of every man. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

Every Man Mistakes the Limits of His Vision For The Limits Of The World.. —
Arthur Schopenhauer

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? —
Zhuangzi

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

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity. —
Samuel Johnson

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

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. —
Pliny The Elder

But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this. —
Sarah Addison Allen

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... —
Walter De La Mare

The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations. —
Auliq Ice

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. —
Joe Slovo