#though

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment. ↗

— J.C. Ryle

#men

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#liberty #men

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#thoughts #words #men

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown ↗

— Herman Melville

#soul #thought #men

Be yourself, because really, who else can you be...? ↗

— James A. Murphy

#phylosophy #thoughts-on-life #inspirational