Man Quotes

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Henry David Thoreau

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

Blaise Pascal

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.

Albert Einstein

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Gloria Steinem

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

Stephen King

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Bertrand Russell

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Stephen King

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.

Orson Scott Card

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Mark Twain

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Ambrose Bierce

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Albert Einstein

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

Ernest Hemingway

Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Samuel Johnson

Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: Learn what dwells in man. And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.

Leo Tolstoy

In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

Neil Gaiman

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..

Aldous Huxley