Conditions Quote by George MacDonald

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for…

— Josh Billings

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret…

— Confucius

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the…

— John Calvin

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

— Hannah Arendt

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact…

— Hermann Hesse

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being…

— Alexander Pope

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

— Winston Churchill

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him…

— Matthew Henry

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider…

— Charles Darwin