Excellence Quote by Sophocles

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

— John Milton

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

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

— Juvenal

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

— Francis Bacon

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

— Thomas Jefferson

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

— James Mackintosh