Results with search term: 'man'

Go Back to 'Home' clicking on the thinker.
Click on links on Author column to get all his quotes
You can also click on 'Searching by Author'.

Quote	Author	Send
The covetous MAN is ever in want.	Horace, Epistles
The crown and glory of life is character. It is noblest possession of MAN. It exercises a greater power than wealth and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame.	Samuel Smiles
The crowning fortune of a MAN is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or status, or songs.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature, which distinguishes MAN from animals.	William Osler
The determined scholar and the MAN of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.	Confucius
The difference between a moral MAN and a MAN of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.	H. L. Mencken
The direction in which education starts a MAN will determine his future life.	Plato
The duty of MAN is the same in respect of his own nature as in respect of the nature of all other things, namely not to follow if but to amend it.	John Stuart Mill
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self’s, for what a MAN wishes he generally believes to be true.	Demosthenes
The English instinctively admire any MAN who has no talent and is modest about it.	James Agree
The evil implanted in MAN by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.	Cicero
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken MAN is happier than a sober one.	George Bernard Shaw
The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive. A MAN winnows his neighbour’s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the false, die from the gambler.	Buddha
The first duty of a MAN is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.	Cicero
The first duty of MAN is that of subduing fear.	Thomas Carlyle