Quotes about Man
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.
- Dennis Prager
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
- Confucius
The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. Be famous then by wisdom; as thy empire must extend, so let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
- John Milton
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- CS Lewis
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
- Ayn Rand
The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.
- Alistair Begg
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
- John Milton
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
- Bishop TD Jakes
In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441
- Ted Andrews