Average Man Quotes - Page 5

• Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

  John Dall

  Men, Average, Evil

  "Fictional character: Brandon Shaw". "Rope", 1948.

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• Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

  Paul Klee

  God, Sarcasm, Men

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Men, Average

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.22, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self Confidence, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  Nikola Tesla

  Powerful, Women, Civilization

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Warrior

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• Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

  Robert G. Allen

  Leadership, Dream, Crazy

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Men, Russia

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.36, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

  Rocky Bridges

  Motivational, Baseball, Running

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• A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Responsibility, Warrior

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• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Average

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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• The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Men, Average

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.86, Knopf

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• To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Dream, Philosophy, Taken

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Science, Men

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• The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four

  Fred Allen

  Girl, Home, Maturity

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• In real life there is no such person as the average man.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Men, Average

  "Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948".

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• People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

  William B. Munro

  Appreciation, Men, Average

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• The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

  Honore Daumier

  Men, Average, Burden

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• It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

  Walter Dill Scott

  Men, Average, Fifty

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• The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Artist, Men

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• Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Men, Average

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