Man Cannot Quotes
253 quotes by 185 authors
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
— John Selden
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We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live…
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
— Plato
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.
— Socrates
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All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.
— Victor Gold
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To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too. A man cannot…
— Stanley Kunitz
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
— Charlotte Whitton
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Man unquestionably has impressive powers... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
— Miriam Makeba
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The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is…
— William Lane Craig
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
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Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
— Thomas Szasz
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong…
— Herman Wouk
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Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner…
— D. H. Lawrence
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A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there…
— John Selden
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a…
— E. M. Forster
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
— William McKinley
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Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences…
— Sidney Hook
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