Sophocles Hands Quotations

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.