Quotes About Man

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

That [man] can compress the most words in the fewest ideas of any man I ever knew.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.

Religion will always have a future because it is an expression of the profound search for the meaning of life and a consequence of introspection and encounters with Him. As long as life continues to be a mystery and man wonders who created the natural order—while those questions, which I believe will be eternal, persist— the concept of religion will endure as a manifestation of the urgent calling to understand who we are.

a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

Easiest thing in the world is to love a dying man.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Nonc's dad has had cancer before, so the diagnosis isn't exactly news. There's something right about it, though. A man spends his life "not expected"—isn't that how it should end?

But in America, people's stories change all the time. In America, it is the man who matters. Perhaps they will believe your story and perhaps not, but you, Jun Do, they will believe you.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches … Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' 'Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion' in The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of humans from our hairier ancestors.

In a hole in the ground, a man lay extremely dead.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

I will greatly increase your offspring, And they shall be too many to count." 11 The angel of the Lord said to her further, "Behold, you are with child And shall bear a son; You shall call him Ishmael,* For the Lord has paid heed to your suffering. 12 He shall be a wild ass of a man; His hand against everyone, And everyone's hand against him; He shall dwell alongside of all his kinsmen.

He knows a place. I like that. It's refreshing to meet a man who has ideas about what we should do and where we should

He knows a place. I like that. It's refreshing to meet a man who has ideas about what we should do and where we should go.

Thus, it is the task of man to redeem these shattered fragments, or sparks, to find in them their higher significance, and to restore them to their divine origin.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.

There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.

Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.

I dream of a state of affairs in which every man would know that he lives and dies for the preservation of the species.