“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
James Allen book As a Man Thinketh
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”
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This quote is itself quoting Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman in the film Grey Owl (1999)
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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
