Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 4539.

  • Thomas Jefferson Tranquility is the old man's milk.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Mark Twain True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • René Daumal Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Bayard Taylor Twas glory once to be a Roman; She makes it glory, now, to be a man.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • E. M. Cioran Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Norman Mailer Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bobby Fischer Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Aldous Huxley Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • William Ellery Channing Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets co
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Wallace Stevens Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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