Backwards Quote by Anonymous

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

“The man in this stage of consciousness thinks of his "I" as a mental thing, having a lower companion, the body. He feels that…

— Yogi Ramacharaka

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man does not always remain at the same stage. He is always ascending or descending. When he reaches the top, he must concern…

— Chaim Potok

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

— Laurence J. Peter

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

— Croesus

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

— Raymond Queneau

“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they do not…

— C.Wright Mills

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in…

— Baron d'Holbach

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing…

— John Campbell Shairp