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God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
- RC Sproul Jr.
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
- William Faulkner
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
- Alice Walker
All men desire by nature to know.
- Aristotle
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
- Aristotle
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
- Brennan Manning
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
- CS Lewis
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
- Washington Irving
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
- Cormac McCarthy