- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020