Quotes about Man
O saving Victim, opening wide. The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side,Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
- Benjamin Disraeli
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
- Mark Twain
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself — self-discipline, self-control.
- Mark Driscoll
anxiety and subsequent panic attacks were the result of being conflicted between the fear of the Lord and the fear of man. Proverbs 29:25 says, "The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.
- Mark Driscoll
What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?
- Mark Driscoll
And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.
- Aristotle
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Oh, bless you, it doesn't matter in the least. If the man is caught, it will be on account of their exertions; if he escapes, it will be in spite of their exertions. It's heads I win and tails you lose. Whatever they do, they will have followers. 'Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!
- Soren Kierkegaard