Man Quotes

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.