Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 381 till 400 of 2161.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Barbara L. Diamond Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
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  • Robin Morgan Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Hardy Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Florence King During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Horace Mann Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Jackie Mason Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Max Lerner Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • George Orwell England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Beilby Porteus Envy, eldest born of hell, embru'd Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men To make which nature never made, And God abhorr'd.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Tacitus Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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