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.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in...
Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
