Quotes
Quotes about Man
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Open every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe.
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
Clothes make the man.
