Bores Quote by Anatole France

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one…

— Sigmund Freud

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

— Epictetus

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not…

— Epictetus

“In the tremendous breaking forth of a whole people, in which all degrees, tempers and characters are confounded, delivering themselves, by a miracle of…

— Thomas Paine

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us:…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses…

— Woodrow Wilson

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a…

— Gautama Buddha

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of…

— Francis Wyndham

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the…

— Vera Brittain

“Since early childhood, their emotions have been conditioned by the tribal premise that one must “belong,” one must be “in,” one must swim with…

— Ayn Rand

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales…

— Francis Bacon