Quotes related to Proverbs 20:5
I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.
— Erwin McManus
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
— Samuel Johnson
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
— St. Augustine
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.
— Thomas Paine
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
— DH Lawrence
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
— Samuel Beckett
You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world.
— Danny Silk
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter
. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
— Charles Dickens