Temple Quotes

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. View quote
Sun Tzu
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own. View quote
Paul
The temple of fame stands upon the grave the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men. View quote
William Hazlitt
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. View quote
Ayn Rand
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. View quote
Maya Angelou
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts ... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them. (George Fox)
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
On his childhood One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard. View quote
Mike Tyson
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. View quote
Gary Cherone
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple. View quote
Pythagoras
When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life. (Pythagoras)
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race. View quote
Daniel Webster
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle. View quote
Francis Parkman
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. View quote
André Malraux