Ideas Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

— Norman Douglas

“If a man cannot invest his life, or any part of it, with meaning, all he has left are distractions from meaninglessness, although few…

— Daniel Klein

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

— Laurence Olivier

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

— Muhammad Ali

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

— Erich Fromm

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works…

— George Horace Lorimer

When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should…

— Albert Einstein

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

— Georges Clemenceau

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

— Guy Sajer