Ordinary Man Quotes
Collection of top 88 famous quotes about Ordinary Man
Ordinary Man Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Ordinary Man quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
— Blaise Pascal
The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his day-to-day life.
— William Barrett
For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.
— Albert Camus
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
— Austin O'Malley
Spencer W. Kimball: No Ordinary Man," Ensign, Mar. 1974, 3.
— The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary.
— Lauren Gilley
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
— Nelson Mandela
The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.
— Martin Cruz Smith
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
— Peter O'Toole
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
— Cheryl Strayed
Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.
— Nancy E. Turner
It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.
— Ashwin Sanghi
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
— William Stanley Jevons
A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.
— Raymond Carver
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
— Joseph Campbell
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
— William Hazlitt
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
— Muhammad Ali
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
— Ray Davies
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
— E.F. Schumacher
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
— John Fowles
If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.
— Helen Maryles Shankman
Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.
— George Meade
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
— George Orwell
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
— Philip K. Dick
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker
— Alan Dean Foster
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
— Ramana Maharshi
Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
— Friedrich Schiller
The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.
— Blaise Pascal
the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man
— Malcolm D. Allen
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
— G.K. Chesterton
Ordinary man can try million times..but only a ambitions man try diffrent in million ways ... create new ways to solve existing problems.jj
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
— Giorgio Agamben
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
— Joseph Addison
She believed she was ordinary? Impossible! Any man with common sense would see what I do. The more she went on the angrier I became.#Ren
— Colleen Houck
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
— Sri Aurobindo
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
— Erich Fromm
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
— George Orwell
Embrace the shadows ... Breathe the silence ... Be ordinary, be invisible ... Mark the man ... Know every out ...
— Brent Weeks
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
— Hiroyuki Takei
I am no longer a Silent Brother," he said. "Only an ordinary man. My name is James, James Carstairs. But everyone calls me Jem.
— Cassandra Clare
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
— Anton Chekhov
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
— Joseph Campbell
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man differs from the ordinary; in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about. — Gian Kumar
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
— D.H. Lawrence
Ordinary life goes onthat has saved many a man's reason. — Graham Greene
I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
— Archibald Primrose
I would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement. — Courtney Milan
You shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinary man.
— Haruki Murakami
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
— George Steiner
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
— Gautama Buddha
Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.
— Jacqueline Winspear
A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
— Adyashanti
