Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 1 till 20 of 2161.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
  • Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
    +22
  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
    - +
    +10
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +9
  • Aristotle Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
    - +
    +7
  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
    - +
    +7
  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
    - +
    +6
  • George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
    +4
  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
    +4
  • J. Russel A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
    - +
    +3
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
    - +
    +3
  • Brian Tracy Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
    - +
    +3
  • Albert Einstein Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
    +3
  • William E. Gladstone Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
    - +
    +3
  • Plato When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
    - +
    +3
  • Joseph Conrad A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
    - +
    +2
  • Mahatma Gandhi All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
    - +
    +2
  • Voltaire All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
    - +
    +2
  • Winston Churchill All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
    +2
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
    - +
    +2
  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
    - +
    +2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
All men-intellectuals famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com