Quotes about Man
The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.
— John Donne
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
— Abraham Lincoln
The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
— John F. Kennedy
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
— Mark Twain
The child is the father of the man.
— William Wordsworth
The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.
— Dorothy Sayers
Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being....
— Edith Wharton
Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.
— Edith Wharton
It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.
— Edmund Burke
Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
— Edward Welch
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
— Albert Camus