Average Man Quotes - Page 4

• The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

  Mark Twain

  Silly, Mean, Men

  Mark Twain (1925). “In defense of Harriet Shelley”

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• I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Average, Claims

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• The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

  Morrie Brickman

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Average, Desire

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Average

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A survey has shown that the average man has had sex in a car 15 times. Something to keep in mind next time you're looking for a used car.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Men, Average

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• The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Running, Real, Sacrifice

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.21, Westminster John Knox Press

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• And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Expression, Average

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• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

  Unknown

  Successful, Warrior, Men

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• Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

  Willa Holland

  Angel, Men, Average

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• Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Average

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.103, TAN Books

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• Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Men, Average

  'Vildanden' (The Wild Duck, 1884) act 5

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• The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Average, Littles

  Outspoken Essays Patriotism (pp. 38-9)

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• Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Average, Shoes

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Reading, Men, Light

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• The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Men, Average

  The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest Volume XI, July 1900 (p. 36)

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• The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Moving, Mean

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• The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Average, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.86, Penguin

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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.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart.

  Dan Millman

  Responsibility, Warrior, Men

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• Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Determination, Men, Rights

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Eye, Heart

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• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Love, Life, Family

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• My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'

  Chael Sonnen

  Men, Phones, Average

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