Average Quote by Ernst Mach

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

— Adolphe Quetelet

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss…

— Max Stirner

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result…

— Adolf Hitler

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create…

— Eyvind Johnson

…Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search…

— J. William Fulbright

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .…

— Laurens van der Post

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The character of man as an ego centered individual who desired knowledge of reality so that he could further his dominance over any counterparty…

— Anonymous

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries…

— Albert Einstein