Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The commander of a mighty army can be captured, but the aspiration of an ordinary man can never be seized. —Confucius” — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“And who is the hero of that story? Who slew the dragon [totalitarianism]? Yes, it was the ordinary man, the taxpayer, the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man thinks that yielding to doubts and worries is a sign of sensibility, of spirituality. Acting thus, he remains distant… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. “Perhaps… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
“Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not,… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I know that everyone in this room, Bernie Fain included, thinks I'm some kind of a nut with my so-called fixation on… — Jeff Rice Copy Share Image
“From the moment an apprentice has discovered his power he is an apprentice no more, but has become a master in his… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“We must also know for ourselves that the Lord restored His Church and the priesthood keys through the Prophet Joseph Smith. And… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“It was suitably like limbo to depress the spirits of an ordinary man, let alone one with Alec's problems.” — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
One machine can do the work of hundred ordinary men but no machine can do the work of one extra ordinary man. — SmartMuslimAnas Copy Share Image
There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. — William Halsey Copy Share Image