Man Quotes

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.

The great variability of all the external differences between the races of man, likewise indicates that they cannot be of much importance; for if important, they would long ago have been either fixed and preserved, or eliminated.

A naked man on a naked horse is a fine spectacle. I had no idea how well the two animals suited each other.

In a series of forms graduating insensibly from some apelike creature to man as he now exists, it would be impossible to fix on any definite point where the term 'man' ought to be used.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

The imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man.

I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.