By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice.
This is the only education which deserves the name.
—Plato
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
—Julius Caesar
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde
Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
—Thomas Aquinas
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates
Wise men speak because they have something to say.
Fools because they have to say something.
—Plato
[Christianity] transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story…
—J. Gresham Machen
Men don’t like to have Christ preached faithfully; but it is just what they don’t like to have that we must give them. I learned that long ago. The very truths that men object to, and that make them angry, are the truths that bring them to the cross of Christ.
—D. L. Moody
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
—Charles Darwin
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering..
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
—Oscar Wilde
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
—Nikolai Gogol
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
—Oscar Wilde
The world exists for the education of each man
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
—Blaise Pascal
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
—Aristotle
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
—Aristotle
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
—Isaac Newton
That our feelings do not correspond with our judgments, is one of the strongest proofs of our depravity and of the double man within us.
—William Wilberforce
The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.
—J. Gresham Machen
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is a mystery.
It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.
I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
—Charles Dickens
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards