Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 2161.

• One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

  G. Emmons
   
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• One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

  Thomas Arnold
  English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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• Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

  Nelson Mandela
  South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• Only men of character are trusted.
  

  Zig Ziglar
  American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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• Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• Only morons would ever think of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

  E. Glasgow
   
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• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.

  Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

  Willa Cather
  American author (1873 - 1947)
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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

  Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt
  German nationalist historian, writer, and poet (1769 - 1860)
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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

  Benjamin Rush
  American politician (1745 - 1813)
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• Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

  Gerald R. Ford
  American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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• Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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• Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

  Anthony Wayne
  American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intellectuals
• consciousness
• collaborators
• preservation
• themselves
• friendship

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