“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Demonology
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)
“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
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Heath Ledger (1979–2008) Australian actor
On becoming a father to his daughter Matilda, (June 2005), as quoted in "Obituary: Heath Ledger" http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/23/2144459.htm, ABC News, January 23, 2008.
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
James Legge translation.
Variant translations: The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
The greater man does not boast of himself, But does what he must do.
A good man does not give orders, but leads by example.
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
James Legge (1815–1897) missionary in China
Bk. 14, Ch. 29 (p. 208)
Translations, The Confucian Analects
“A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
A play on the line's in Robert Browning's poem "Andrea del Sarto":
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p.7
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Clary, pg. 317
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
"Andrea del Sarto", line 98.
Men and Women (1855)
Source: Men and Women and Other Poems