Comfortable Quote by Lord Acton

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

— Antoine Rivarol

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

— Ivan Pavlov

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

— Publilius Syrus

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

— George Washington

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his…

— Anonymous

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

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things…

— Charles Horton Cooley