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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

If a man is poor, and at the same time lazy,he is more likely to be malicious.

– lot chakonzaRate it:

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it

– SocratesRate it:

If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you send him to college, at the end of his education, he will steal the whole railway track.

– D. L. MoodyRate it:

If a man is the head, a woman is the brain, without the brain, tell me what will become of the head. -Okiki Michael

– The PostRate it:

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

– SenecaRate it:

If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

– Lucius Annaeus SenecaRate it:

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

– Eldridge CleaverRate it:

If a man marries a wicked woman from a wicked family, certainly he will die the day he needs life.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

– Confucius, Analects, XIV.12Rate it:

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.*

– PlatoRate it:

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.

– W. Somerset MaughamRate it:

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand

– ConfuciusRate it:

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

– ConfuciusRate it:

If a man talks this today and that tomorrow, he is a thief.

– Dean Keak TegnRate it:

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

If a man wants to become a hero, the snake must first become a dragon: otherwise he is lacking his proper enemy.

– Friedrich NietzscheRate it:

If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.

– Erma BombeckRate it:

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

– Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"Rate it:

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

– Francis BaconRate it:

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

– Sir Francis BaconRate it:

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

– ConfuciusRate it:

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