Ability Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

— Voltaire

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes…

— Charles Babbage

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

— George S. Patton

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

— Samuel Johnson

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

— Anonymous

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

— Meena Harris

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

— Ellen Goodman

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

— Samuel Butler

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

— Russell Kirk