Himself
An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself.
Alt. of Himselven
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Himself Quotations
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
Himself Translations
himself in Afrikaans is self
himself in Dutch is vanzelf, zelf
himself in Finnish is itse
himself in German is sich
himself in Latin is ipse ipsa ipsum, sui, sese
himself in Norwegian is han selv
himself in Portuguese is ele mesmo
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