Famous Quotes

"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

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Isaac Asimov

• "It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."

• "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

• "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

• "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

• "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."