Quotes
Quotes about Man
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
A woman should be an illusion.
. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.
Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf. Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.]
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
A good man never dies.
'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
