Character Quote by Ernest Renan Download Open image “The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.” — Ernest Renan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character God Great Proof Men Proof Proof God Proof of god Virtue Virtue Man
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of… — Spark Matsunaga Copy Share Image
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him! — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist,… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater;… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“To have done great things together, to want to do more, such are the essential conditions to form a people. . . . Man… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.” — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
