Quotes
Quotes about Man
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -George Soros.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
