Man
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God — by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
