All things Quote by Anthony Trollope

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of…

— Luc de Clapiers

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their…

— Maurice de Saxe

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…

— Joseph Conrad

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what…

— Stephen Jay Gould

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

— Henry Ward Beecher

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

— Joyce Rupp

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about…

— Galileo Galilei

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

— Edward Abbey

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

— Billy Graham

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

— Michel de Montaigne