Bears Quote by Isaac of Nineveh

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant…

— Eugene Delacroix

And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying…

— Peter Abelard

“Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.”

— C.S. Forester

Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so…

— Clement of Alexandria

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

— Warren Farrell

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure…

— Isaac of Nineveh

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano…

— Billy Collins

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

— Saigyō