Top 1200 Renaissance Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie".

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is; God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems; What grief is absent, or what mischief can Be added to the hate of God and man?

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't - you know - be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

A real man won't ask or answer questions about another man's money.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.