Active Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

— Alexander Hamilton

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

— Thomas Hobbes

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

— Anonymous

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

— David Hume

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

— Brandon Sanderson

Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire…

— Sigmund Freud

“Men often, in endeavoring to gratify their own passions, seek what is injurious to them, reject what would be truly advantageous, and are deluded…

— Sozomen

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau