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Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

— Erik Erikson

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✓Similar Perspectives

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

— Indra Devi

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

— George Bernard Shaw

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

— Andrew Carnegie

Great men always pay deference to greater.

— Walter Savage Landor

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

— John Abbott

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

— Dorothea Dix

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

— Cesare Lombroso

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