Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Men Quotations

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

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

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.