All Quotes

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
‐‐ Maxwell Maltz

Man makes holy what he believes.
‐‐ Ernest Renan

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
‐‐ Jacob Bronowski

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
‐‐ Nas

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
‐‐ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Man must be associated with his fellows.
‐‐ James Larkin

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
‐‐ Majel Barrett

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
‐‐ Johannes Tauler

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
‐‐ Arthur Miller

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
‐‐ Fernand Leger

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
‐‐ Plato

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
‐‐ Bernard Williams

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.
‐‐ Allen Iverson

Man proposes, and God disposes.
‐‐ Ludovico Ariosto

Man proposes, but God disposes.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Man proposes, woman forecloses.
‐‐ Minna Antrim

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
‐‐ Reinhold Niebuhr

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
‐‐ Jules Verne

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
‐‐ John Flavel

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
‐‐ Paul Valery

Man's greatest fear is chaos.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
‐‐ Standing Bear

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
‐‐ Ralph Steadman

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
‐‐ Kurt Sutter

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
‐‐ Robert Burns

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
‐‐ Frederic William Farrar

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
‐‐ Eugene O'Neill