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Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
— Dale Carnegie
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
— Henry Adams
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
— Sydney J. Harris
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
— Seneca The Younger
A man only got one shot at declaring himself to his true love; he didn't want to muck it up completely.
— Julia Quinn
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
— Horatio Nelson
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
— Jules Renard
A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
— Charlotte Bronte
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
— Laurence Sterne
Don't interrupt a man when he's giving himself hell.
— Elmore Leonard
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
No man is hurt but by himself
— Diogenes Of Sinope
A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason
— Lucinda Brant
A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
— George Jean Nathan
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
— Robert Morley
Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
— Ernest Hemingway,
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
— Otto Weininger
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
— Howard G. Hendricks
man lies to himself a lot.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
— Samuel Butler
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room.
— Frank Herbert
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
— Karl Marx
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
— Alex Faickney Osborn
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
— Karl Marx
The greatest of all enemies of man is himself
— Paramahansa Yogananda
The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
— Edward Gibbon
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
— John Calvin
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
— Robert Southey
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
— Cesar Chavez
Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?
— Lin Yutang
24. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
— Anonymous
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
— Helen Rowland
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
— Saint Augustine
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.
— L. Frank Baum
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti
that deed and word should be in accord, that a man should be equal to himself under all conditions, and always the same.
— Seneca.
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
— Peter Latham
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.
— Horace Pippin
He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things.
— C.S. Lewis
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
— Brian W. Aldiss
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
— Romain Rolland
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
— Gautama Buddha
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.
— Stephanie Dray
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
— Samuel Von Pufendorf
He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.
— Ayn Rand
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
— Thor Heyerdahl
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
— Eva Figes
If it has to be done, a man - a real man - shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The meaning is hidden in man, but it is only man himself who can find it.
— Liv-Christine Hoem
Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown
— Steve Hilts
To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
— Confucius
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
— Luis Barragan
A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
— Gautama Buddha
A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
— Abraham Ibn Ezra
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Never trust a man who cannot laugh at himself.
— Gabbo De La Parra