Quotes about men
men given blink-of-an-eye
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. Chaim Potok
men meaning-of-life given
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life. Chaim Potok
men quality may
A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Chaim Potok
men two intuition
As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense. Chaim Weizmann
men thinking practice
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd. Charlie Munger
men car return
When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas. Charlie Munger
men nails hammers
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Charlie Munger
men fluency kicking
Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Charlie Munger
men ideas people
You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems. Charlie Munger
men tools should
Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations. Charlie Munger
men brain income
It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier. Charlie Munger
men soul holy-cross
Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul? Charles Simeon
men scripture saint
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. Charles Simeon
men thinking errors
Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question. Charles Sanders Peirce
men practice errors
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does. Charles Sanders Peirce
men understanding-nature chance
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. Charles Sanders Peirce
men satisfied every-man
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. Charles Sanders Peirce
men law iron
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements. Charles Sanders Peirce
men envy lasts
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. Charles Sanders Peirce
men belief humans
Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct. Charles Sanders Peirce
men ideas intellectual
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty. Charles Sanders Peirce
men empathy understanding
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man. Charles M. Blow
men criticism praise
If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism. Bill Johnson
men world lasts
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace. Beverley Nichols
men age attractive
I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left! Betty White
men doors sound
I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite. Betty White
men appreciate balance
Men and women balance each other out and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other. Beyonce Knowles
men light cameras
You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy. Bernie Mac
men world want
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world. Bernie Mac
men judging footprint
When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge. Bernie Mac
men careers long
It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way. Bernie Mac
men thinking diplomats
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. Edward Heath
men heterosexuality-is serious
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems. Edward Gorey