Men Quotes - Page 812

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

One thought fills immensity.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things, he told me to get the Spirit of God; that all of us needed it. . . . He said, "I want you to teach the people to get the Spirit of God. You cannot build up the Kingdom of God without that." . . . But how is it with the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost does not leave me if I do my duty. It does not leave any man who does his duty.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.