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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
Related topics: Cynical
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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