Christian Nestell Bovee: Man

Christian Nestell Bovee was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Christian Nestell Bovee: 42 quotes2 likes

“What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 24.

“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 7.

“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 84.

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 143; quoted in Criminal Minds, "The Crossing" [episode 3.18].

“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124.