Ordinary Men Quotes
64 quotes by 58 authors
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What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
— Sun Tzu
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is…
— Sun Tzu
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He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only…
— Leo Tolstoy
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
— William Halsey
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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God…
— Louis Agassiz
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may…
— Arthur Balfour
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Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
— Laozi
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...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because…
— Patricio Aylwin
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Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as…
— Bruce Lee
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
— Thucydides
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It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !
— Akbar
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never…
— Hannah Arendt
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Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only…
— Giorgio de Chirico
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Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions…
— C. Wright Mills
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For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is…
— David Berlinski
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil…
— John T. Flynn
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Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,…
— Gerald Weinberg
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