Ramakrishna Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Men Quotes

When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

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When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

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Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

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Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

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