Birth Quote by Francis Bacon

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

— Michel de Montaigne

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was…

— Paul Samuelson

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of…

— Annie Besant

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

— Frederick the Great

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the…

— William James

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not…

— Gerda Lerner

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It…

— Immanuel Kant

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which…

— Plato

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do…

— Isaac Newton

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

— Samuel Johnson