26 result(s) for Alexander Pope Quotes About Man.
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
"What man can do, man will; but what is man, that he should do it?"
"Man is not a perfect being; he is a creature made imperfectly, by an imperfect creator."
"Man is the measure of all things."
"In the most important sense, man is built from desires."
"Fools! To think that man can know what God knows."
"All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see."
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"What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
"Man never is, but always to be blest."
"The proper study of mankind is man; Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so."
"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
"The greatest art of man is to know how to converse."
"Man may have lived to see better days, but we can never know that."
"To be a poet is to see more in man than man can ever see in himself."
"Every human being is a book and a literature, from which it would be impossible to re-read many of the finest passages."
"Man, like the time, is forever changing, yet has the power to remain the same."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"He whose wisdom cannot help him, let him sink."
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"A man should be as careful to be proactive in his aims as he is in his opinions."
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
"Men are more concerned about their own interest than about virtue."
"The greatest faults are those to which we are blind."
