Top 13 Quotes About What He Is
#1. The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
Erich Auerbach
#2. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.
Harry S. Truman
#3. A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
Willard Gaylin
#4. Do not simply know God according to what He does, but know Him according to what He is. Whether or not God does something for us means nothing.
Witness Lee
#5. War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.
Mark Baker
#6. God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.
Priscilla Shirer
#7. If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#8. A human being does at all times only what he wills, and yet does it necessarily. But that rests on the fact that he is what he wills: for out of what he is everything that he does at any time follows necessarily.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#9. He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
Hanya Yanagihara
#10. There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
Mark Twain
#11. There are things I didn't see before, like how nice it is to have someone around. Not the white knight whisking you away, but the fellow who sits at your table every night and tells you what he is thinking.
Paula McLain
#12. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.
A.W. Tozer
#13. Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability against all competition ... The Universe will let us know-later-whether Man has any right to expand through it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.
John Gregory Dunne
#15. When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.
Chuck Jones
#17. The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
Albert Camus
#19. A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
Henry Ward Beecher
#20. The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
Alan Watts
#21. One's 'life' is 'fractured'; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.
Dada Bhagwan
#22. Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.
Marlon James
#23. In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.
Steven Saylor
#24. The only service you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.
Wallace D. Wattles
#25. Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
Thomas Aquinas
#26. I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!
Donald Goines
#27. His middle name has got to be Arrogant Bastard because that's what he is.
Victoria Denault
#28. It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.
Darius Milhaud
#29. Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#30. Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Henry Jacobsen
#31. The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.
Timothy Morton
#32. Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.
Dan Rather
#33. The man of principle never forgets what he is, because of what others are.
Bohdi Sanders
#34. Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
Jean De La Bruyere
#35. Mercy, GOD, mercy!": the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ. In
Eugene H. Peterson
#36. You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
Will Rogers
#37. Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
Felix Schelling
#38. [Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is ... [ever since Satan has] had it in for women.
Hugh Nibley
#39. Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.
Michael Moorer
#40. The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.
Erik Erikson
#42. One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
#45. A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
Jack Kerouac
#46. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
#47. The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.
Neil Gaiman
#48. He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#49. Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich
#50. Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.
John Stuart Mill
#51. Reginald, the dog-bear," I repeated.
"Or bear-dog," she reminded me.
"That's terrible," I said in mock solemnity. "He's already not sure what he is- a dog, a bear ... a bog ... "
She giggled.
"And then you tag him with the name Reginald?" I shook my head.
Stacey Kade
#52. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#54. The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41
William S. Burroughs
#55. Every fellow is really two men
what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
George Horace Lorimer
#56. When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
#57. Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.
Ivan Klima
#58. But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#59. The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.
Chaim Weizmann
#60. Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#61. Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
Harry G. Frankfurt
#62. Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.
Idries Shah
#63. A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
Stephen King
#64. Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
Zora Neale Hurston
#65. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard Lonergan
#66. A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.
Deepak Chopra
#67. A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Bartholomew Gough
#68. Everyone has a pipeline through which he pushes what he is willing and able to share of himself out into the world, and through which he takes in all of the world that he is willing and able to bear. Max's conduit wasn't bigger than anyone else's, it was simply unclogged. What
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus
#71. Christian joy is letting Christ live His life out through you so that what He is, you become.
David Jeremiah
#72. Resentment is always resentment against oneself. The
rebel, on the contrary, from his very first step, refuses to allow anyone to touch what he is. He is fighting
for the integrity of one part of his being. He does not try, primarily, to conquer, but simply to impose.
Albert Camus
#73. It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
W. Phillip Keller
#74. You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#75. It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
Preston Sturges
#76. There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
Meister Eckhart
#77. Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
Martin Luther
#78. In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
Leo Tolstoy
#79. There's only one guarantee that Jesus gave: if you can receive and awaken and embody what he is speaking about, then your life will never be the same again. Then you will realize that you're already living in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Adyashanti
#80. Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
William James
#81. The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Octavio Paz
#82. The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Paul Watzlawick
#83. The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.
Narciso Yepes
#86. Vocal prayer ... must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
Teresa Of Avila
#87. You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist.
Anton Chekhov
#88. When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson
#89. The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
Hans Hofmann
#90. Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
Lord David Cecil
#91. Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#93. All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
#95. A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
Carlos Castaneda
#96. What will happen if you can travel in somebody's memories??
To see did he done this crime, who kill this woman, or this man, what he has done, what he is planning what happen then if we know this??
Deyth Banger
#97. It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
Peter Drucker
#98. A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)
Sabrina Jeffries
#99. What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H.P. Lovecraft
#100. Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
Marisha Pessl
