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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. ...
by Francis Bacon
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
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Quotes by Francis Bacon
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Man Quotes and Sayings
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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