Quote by Noam Chomsky

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility…

— Jim Perrin

“Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability…

— Clifford D. Simak

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object,…

— Earl of Chesterfield

“A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine…

— Jules Verne

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith

“Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man deliberately places…

— Napoleon Hill

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate…

— Joseph Butler

“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.”

— Jack Kerouac

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“men wrestle with the things they cannot change, and they ignore those that might bend to some economy of effort.”

— Hugh Howey