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“Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.”
“Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.”
Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.”
Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State
“Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.”
“Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.”
“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.”
“Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.”
“Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.”
“Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.”
Source: Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles
“Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.”
Source: Works
“Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.”
“Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice”
“Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.”
Source: Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
“Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.”
“Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.”
“Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.”
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations
“Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.”
Source: Beauties of Cobbett
“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.”
Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?
“Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use
of the book of the world.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer
“Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.”
Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth.”
“Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.”
“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton
“Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.”
Source: Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life
“Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.”
“Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.”
“Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.”
“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”
Source: The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”
Source: Exposition of the Old and New Testament
“Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.”
Source: Debts of Honour
“Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.”
“Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Men of principle are sure to be bold,
but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.”
Source: The Analects
“Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a way of embracing happiness as if they wanted to crush and suffocate it, from jealousy: alas, they know only too well that it will flee.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.”
Source: Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...
“Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality”
“Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.”