While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not... →
Henry David Thoreau
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high... →
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects... →
John Thorn
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even... →
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these... →
Edward Thorndike
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second... →
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber