Quotes with man-being

Quotes 4421 till 4440 of 6261.

  • Thomas Carlyle The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Huey Newton The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Salvador Dali The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bing Gordon The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Bonnie Hunt The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Helen Rowland The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anatole France The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    Source: As you like it
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Leon Blum The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Barbara Deming The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
    Source: Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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