Quotes
Quotes about Man
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
The three signs of great men areâgenerosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon konnen.]
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber Nichts in der Welt.]
All German cities are blind, Nurnberg alone sees with one eye.
Germany must have her place in the sun.
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
