Man Quotes

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man’s limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man’s imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Every man is the son of his own works.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?