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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

Life, Deep, Book

Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman

Study, Historians

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

Alone, Evil, Belief

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin

Positive, Live, Ignorance

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Long, Read

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner

Women, Smart, Unfair

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Herodotus

Trust, Eyes, Less

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Politics, Power, Government

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Future, Past, Path

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
Richard J. Needham

Life, Love, Strong

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing, Him, Speak

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke

Learned, Child, Unexpected

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller

Wine, Sea, Drowned

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats

Drunk, Worst, Sober

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope

Time, Old, Fact

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
Edwin Louis Cole

Immaturity, Testimony, Generally

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Evil, Divorce

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert

Stupid, Together, Able

Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis

Women, Strong, Weak

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin

Work, Live, Give

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Through, Find, Difficult

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Natural, Authority, Fellow

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann

Society, Justice, Free

The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope

Positive, Credulous

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