Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Man

Not only can a man be called “wise,” but also can a woman who is endowed with wisdom be so called.
Buddhist Teaching

The true epic of our times is not “arms and the man,” but “tools and the man,” an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

Man himself is the crowning wonder of creation; the study of his nature the noblest study the world affords.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister

Indisputably a great, good, handsome man is the first of created things.
Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–67) American Poet, Playwright, Essayist

We must love men ere they will seem to us worthy of our love.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

He glorifies his group who is wise, courageous, learned, virtuous and lives up to the law of Righteousness.
Buddhist Teaching

Our generation is realistic for we have come to know man as he really is.
After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor Frankl (1905–97) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist

An eclipsed moon enjoys no brightness or splendour, nor does a man who is under a woman’s influence, even though he may be influential, wise, respected and worshipped by the public.
Buddhist Teaching

The living-place of an Arahat (“Worthy One”), be it a village or a forest, in the low land or on the plateau, is always delightful.
Buddhist Teaching

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man—and free—when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.
Ruth Nanda Anshen (1900–2003) American Philosopher

To have known one good old man—one man who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all discords into peace—helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other, more than many sermons.
George William Curtis (1824–92) American Essayist, Public Speaker, Editor, Author

Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s soul. One’s body is so much more exacting: what it won’t have it won’t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator

As an awaken man does not see what he saw in who his dream, so a living man cannot see the deceased who were his beloved ones.
Buddhist Teaching

He, who is not content-with his own wife, who has an intercourse with prostitutes and goes to others’ wives is doomed to destruction.
Buddhist Teaching

Man! thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and aware of it.
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) American Historian

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
Arthur Eddington (1882–1944) English Astronomer

As long as an evil does not bear fruit, so long will the fool imagine it as sweet. But when it bears fruit, he wilt then experience suffering.
Buddhist Teaching

Inmen whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I found so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

Anyone who considers himself in this way will be seized with terror and, discovering that the mass nature has given him supports itself between two abysses of infinity and nothingness, he will tremble in the face of these marvels; and I believe that as his curiosity changes to admiration, he will be more disposed to contemplate them in silence then search them out with presumption.
For, finally, what is man in nature? He is nothing in comparison with the infinite, and everything in comparison with nothingness, a middle term between all and nothing. He is infinitely severed from comprehending the extremes; the end of things and their principle are for him invincibly hidden in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he arises and the infinity into which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

Those who are impassioned in sensual enjoyments, who are attached to and merged in sensuality, do not know of their overstepping, just as the fishes (not knowing their overstepping) suddenly enter into a trap.
Buddhist Teaching

Man is to man all kinds of beasts; a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) British Head of State

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