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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
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