"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while.… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create...he discovers. Those who look for the laws of… — Antoni Gaudí Copy Share Image
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism,… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image