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  • Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Running Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Break A Leg Quotes
  • It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Matter Quotes
  • There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fall Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Dream Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes