Character Quote by Laozi

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

— James Cash Penney

“If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of…

— Luc de Clapiers

All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are:…

— Blaise Pascal

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their…

— Roger L'Estrange

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

— Oscar Wilde

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by…

— Thomas Hardy

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

— Neil Peart

“The great men. The great men are those who embody the marriage between heaven and hell, hard and soft, strength and vulnerability, Who do…

— VD