Average Man Quotes
112 quotes by 83 authors
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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be…
— Nikola Tesla
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to…
— A A Milne
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In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
— Aldous Huxley
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for…
— Dan Millman
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
— A. E. Housman
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The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
— Aleister Crowley
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The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.
— Honore Daumier
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It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
— Walter Dill Scott
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as…
— Ernst Mach
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The average man is not hard to mystify.
— Howard Thurston
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Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he…
— Rex Harrison
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The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
— H. L. Mencken
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The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to…
— Herbert Newton Casson
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The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no…
— H. L. Mencken
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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the…
— Walter Russell Bowie
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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just…
— Orison Swett Marden
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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number -…
— Crystal Eastman
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average…
— Josef Pieper
Who Wrote These Average Man Quotes
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