Quotes
Quotes about Man
And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."
His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft, Faithful, below, he did his duty; But now he's gone aloft.
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice."
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is ... by teaching every man to think for himself.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err. [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his virtues.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
To err is human.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.
