Quotes about Man
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
- Robert Frost
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
- John Bunyan
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
- John Owen
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
- Karl Barth
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
- St. John Chrysostom
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
- Tim LaHaye
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
- Charles Spurgeon
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius