No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. — Giles of Assisi Copy Share Image
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation. — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning.… — George Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
