Able Quote by Paul Samuelson

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man consists? And…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or…

— Francis Bacon

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect…

— Bertrand Russell

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

— Philemon

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

— Samuel Johnson

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

— Horace Mann

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

— John Ruskin