A Quotes
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“A man who knows it all knows nothing; a man who doesn't know it all but leaves room for constant learning knows everything.”
“A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.”
“A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.”
Source: Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London
“A man who knows that he is silent, who knows that he loves, does not know what love is or what silence is.”
Source: Freedom from the Known
“A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.”
Source: Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
“A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.”
“A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.”
Source: Freedom from the Known
“A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same”
“A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.”
“A man who lacks understanding is susceptible to deception”
“A man who learned to expect the
unexpected, make the most of every circumstance, and most importantly, that you cannot just live
life; you must share insights acquire from the life you have lived.”
Source: Life is not Complicated, You Are
“A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!”
“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
Source: The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher: Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country
“A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”
Source: Pet Sematary
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices.”
Source: The Gift
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.”
“A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility”
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.”
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.”
“A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.”
“A man who limits his interests limits his life.”
Source: A Treasury of Great Recipes, 50th Anniversary Edition: Famous Specialties of the World's Foremost Restaurants Adapted for the American Kitchen
“A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?”
Source: One Texas Cowboy Too Many
“A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.”
Source: Compromises
“A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”
Source: No Longer at Ease
“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
Source: Sixty poems of Martial, in translation
“A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.”
“A man who lives off the blessings of his country but pledges allegiance to another country is a man with no honour.”
Source: Utopias and Realities: A Colorful Journey Through Life
“A man who lives on past achievements slowly buries his future.”
“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
“A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.”
“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.”
“A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.”
“A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.”
“A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.”
“A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.”
Source: The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
“A man who looks too deeply inside himself is apt to see nothing and so despair.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.”
“A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.”
“A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.”
“A man who loves beauty doesn't fall for the most beautiful women - he falls for the one who is ready to acquire beauty in love.”
“A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.”
“A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.”
Source: From I to Q
“A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.”
“A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.”
Source: The Stand
“A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.”
Source: Healology
“A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.”
“A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.”
“A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.”