Man Cannot Quotes

253 quotes by 185 authors

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or… — Thomas Jefferson
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. — Max Muller
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man… — Thomas Paine
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to… — Blaise Pascal
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider… — John Ruskin
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. — Olive Schreiner
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. — Samuel Smiles
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot… — Ben Stein
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. — Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. — Mark Twain
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. — Booker T. Washington
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too… — Oscar Wilde
Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated,… — Julian Barnes
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man… — James Allen
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible… — Mahatma Gandhi
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering,… — Leo Tolstoy

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