Expectations Quote by Thomas Hobbes

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of…

— Thomas Hobbes

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

— Sigmund Freud

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

— Marquis de Sade

A man is more than his failings.

— Rick Reilly

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

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable…

— Roger Ascham

When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for…

— Carlos Castaneda

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing…

— Aldous Huxley

“The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower is it in reaching maturity. Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he…

— Niccolo Machiavelli