The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine Copy Share Image
There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. — William Halsey Copy Share Image
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. — Anonymous 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
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell 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
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“ordinary man can try million times..but only a ambitions man try diffrent in million ways...create new ways to solve existing problems.jj” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“I'm just an ordinary man, but you make me feel like I'm the strongest man in the world. I'm not worthy of… — Jessie Lane 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
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“In another of his most famous essays, Montaigne argued that to philosophise is to learn to die. I learned how to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal… — Antonin Artaud 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
Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes.… — Lawrence E. Corbridge 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
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. — Pam Brown 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
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible. — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
“I would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin. "Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
