Quotes about World
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
— Charles Spurgeon
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
— Billy Graham
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
— GK Chesterton
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.
— Myles Munroe
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
— Oscar Wilde
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville