The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides
Related We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is t... MAIMONIDES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one... JOHN STUART MILL Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. ALBERT CAMUS In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge,... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his ha... DEANNA RAYBOURN Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ... FERNAND MERY Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede... CHARLES MACKAY The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. MUHAMMAD ALI The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his lif... MUHAMMAD ALI A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. MUHAMMAD ALI A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them a... HELEN ROWLAND A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them... HELEN ROWLAND A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them a... HELEN ROWLAND A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glo... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to hav... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned... SCOTT MCCLELLAN The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. MARK TWAIN When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of... RICHARD ADAMS Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He made a mistake going on television, giving his opinions about the investigation. ... He shouldn't... LEONARD DOWNIE To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduc... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the... BERTRAND RUSSELL In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them?p... PLATO Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A ... ROBERT TERWILLIGER Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way o... MARK TWAIN I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matt... ALEXANDER MACKENZIE He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal DESIDERIUS ERASMUS I think Troy is one of best all-around guards in the city. He defends and handles the ball well. His... CARL KREMER He says he likes to share them all but his peanut butter ones. BECKY BROWN Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thought... CHARLES SPURGEON There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a wa... MARCEL PROUST There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a w... MARCEL PROUST The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he h... MARK TWAIN The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he h... MARK TWAIN With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end o... GRAHAM GREENE He likes to see debate. He thinks it's very healthy, very constructive for the process. Oftentimes, ... DON EVANS Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which h... SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked ... RANDOLPH BOURNE The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he ... SIGMUND FREUD Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestl... LOUIS DE BERNIèRES Terry, he is involved in youth with his church program. He likes kids. He wants to be adopted. He sa... LINDA HARKEY Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no... ANTHONY BURGESS Joe likes coaching in big games. He likes the challenge. He really enjoys them. FRANK TURNER A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do the... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ... DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth,... SIGMUND FREUD My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his cou... MAHATMA GANDHI He did certain things in his youth that were not OK and which he has explained, GERHARD SCHROEDER It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio... RAMANA MAHARSHI Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hatefu... KARL BARTH He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which h... EPICTETUS A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he... EPICTETUS He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which h... EPICURUS He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protecte... CECILIA RODHE
He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have ... R.A.LUCAS I guess he is so important to them and he is doing things pretty smartly in terms of where he defend... MICHAEL HAGAN If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he i... WILL DURANT A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi... HORACE MANN Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those bel... VOLTAIRE Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those b... VOLTAIRE Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those b... VOLTAIRE A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then ... HARDY AMIES Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he p... ISAAC NEWTON And withhold yourself with those who call on their Lord morning and evening desiring His goodwill, a... QURAN If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowle... PAUL HENRI THIRY D'HOLBACH I do not believe he has an agenda to reverse our nation's historic commitment to civil rights, and I... JEFF BINGAMAN The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stra... G.K. CHESTERTON Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru... MARK TWAIN I don't think people always believe my brother's genuineness. He cares about people; he wants to hel... DAVE TRESSEL Everybody clapped enthusiastically and Dr. Marx popped up from behind the podium, where he had been ... GIDEON DEFOE He has been conscious at all times, and when he has been able to, he has spoken normally with his fa... MANUEL CERVERA Which of them said which has never been determined, and does not matter, since they all had the same... SINCLAIR LEWIS Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ... MARK TWAIN The Dog in the Manger
A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen fr... AESOP A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charit... CHANAKYA As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds.
And his gods they are shaped in his image... DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS") From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Last was man. One by one God judged them all; Those who were his He saved for his pleasure, Th... JONAS PEREZ Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particul... CRISS JAMI We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange... ROBBIE KEANE All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit... HENRY MILLER All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits... HENRY MILLER This man has been humiliated beyond belief by his own hand. He is estranged from those he loves most... LEE BLALACK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. [He said he had] extensive discussions ... strong views, and I have conveyed them to the North Korea... COLIN POWELL To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev... THOMAS JEFFERSON What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary—if at the same time he ... JOHN NEWTON The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless. The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f... ALBERT CAMUS The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey throu... JOHN WILLIAMS Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them... EDWARD W. HOWE What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of... CRISS JAMI
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