Description Quote by Nikolai Gogol

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

— Sivananda

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers…

— Sydney J. Harris

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But…

— Ralph Bunche

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

— Theodore Parker

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition…

— Colin Wilson

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

— Elias Canetti

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning…

— Thomas Jefferson

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains,…

— Benjamin Disraeli