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Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman on men

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

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 on men

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 on men

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

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 on men

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Herodotus on men

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

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

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 on men

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 on men

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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller on men

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

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 on men

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

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 on men

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 on men

Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis on men

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 on men