The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
It takes a smart man to play dumb.
When I was a kid, I used to think, ‘Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that’s as rich as I ever want to be.’
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
Time and tide wait for no man.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
