No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn’t believed.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I really don’t believe in magic.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

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 estimate beyond the stars.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.