Facts Quote by Ivan Pavlov

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect…

— Lord Acton

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

— Pliny the Elder

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

— Renee Ellmers

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not…

— Petrarch

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

— Victor Hugo

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

— George Washington

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

— Aristotle