Adequate Quote by Edmund Burke

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Charles Lindbergh

No man does anything from a single motive.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

— James McCosh

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

— Immanuel Kant

A man lives by what he believes in, not by what he reasons or argues about.

— Dada JP Vaswani

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

— Andre Gide

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

— Anonymous

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

— Paul Valery

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

— Thomas Carlyle

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

— Kenneth Waltz