Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and...
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people...
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
