Quotes About Men

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.