Quotes About Man

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.

Nothing stuns others more than the quiet eruption of a normally quiet man.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

So you think Don Pedro ended up all right," I said. "I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to his world, because he knew about war and folly. I think that he loved greatly, because he had seen what lost love is. And I think he came to know, too, that he was loved greatly." She looked at the strawberry in her hands. "But I thought you didn't want me to tell you your future.

In the midst of great anxiety and great sadness, it takes an honorable man to nourish the goodness around him, small and fragile as it may seem.

Mis señores, yo no estoy hecho de piedra. Sólo soy un hombre y un hombre es el más frágil de los monumentos

If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry.

But there's fear and there's panic, y'know. Calm is what matters to the bees. Calm without fear is a peril, and fear without calm doubly so. But the man who can hold both at once within his breast will not be harmed.

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Marco smiles, they shake hands, and Robert Blackfeather Sherman sees it again, as he did when Marco knelt before him just a few minutes ago: The light warps around Marco Angelo Oliveira; the colors of the trees and sky stretch and smear, as if Marco is an empty place in the shape of a man and the earth and air around him are screaming to fill it.

I had some envy of the man who could use the word "chicanery" with such confidence.

Ecclesiastes 12:13–14 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

The mind of man is never so cunning as when it is involved in the art of self-justification.

But she also knew that he was a man, and men need to feel that they are doing something significant or they wither and fade into depression.

This was the first time in my life that I had witnessed the awful scene of a battle, when man was engaged to destroy his fellow-man,

Emotions are the most toxic substances known to man,' wrote Nilsen.

It was the refrigerator of a man who was worried about his health. It was also the refrigerator of a man from another generation.

A woman needs fatalism more than a man. A woman's role in life is to listen, and when I listen I never hear anything but the howl of the wind. I prefer the sound of my own voice.