Man Quotes

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

~ Thomas Aquinas

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

~ Saint Ignatius

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

~ Meister Eckhart

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

~ Aeschylus

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

~ Oscar Wilde

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

~ Euripides

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

~ Ramakrishna

God made the integers all else is the work of man.

~ Leopold Kronecker

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

~ Edmund Burke

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

~ Herodotus

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

~ James Weldon Johnson

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

~ Sophocles

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

~ George Whitefield

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

~ John Philpot Curran

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

~ John Barth

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

~ John Locke

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

~ William Penn

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

~ Maria Montessori

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

~ Mr. T

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

~ Khalil Gibran

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

~ Herbert Spencer

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

~ Henry Ford

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

~ Thomas Huxley

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

~ P. G. Wodehouse

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

~ Maimonides

In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

~ Duane Allman

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

~ Joseph Addison

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

~ T. E. Lawrence

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

~ Chanakya

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

~ Karl Jaspers

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

~ Benjamin Franklin