Men Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Wonder Wonderful World
Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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