Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink… — Edward Rowland Sill Copy Share Image
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course,… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make… — Blanche Willis Howard Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will… — Boniface Wimmer Copy Share Image
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
