Addresses Quote by Maimonides

The man who speaks the truth is always at ease

— Persian Proverb

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by…

— H. L. Mencken

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever…

— Abigail Adams

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself…

— Philip K. Dick

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook…

— Jonathan Swift

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

— Marcel Proust

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

— Upton Sinclair

“The ordinary man thinks that yielding to doubts and worries is a sign of sensibility, of spirituality. Acting thus, he remains distant from the…

— Paulo Coelho

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself…

— Michel de Montaigne