greatness
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
16 quotes from Henny Youngman
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
27 other wisdom & wit from James Madison
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
4 more quotes from Jean Ingelow
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
105 more thoughts from Albert Einstein
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
23 more views from Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
6 other quotes from Jack Kerouac
I always entertain great hopes.
50 more sayings from Robert Frost
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
2 other quotes from Cyrano de Bergerac
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
105 more views from Albert Einstein
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
23 sayings from Vincent Van Gogh
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
50 more quotes from Robert Frost
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
6 thoughts from B. R. Ambedkar
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 other views from William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
4 sayings from Coretta Scott King
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
16 more wisdom & wit from David Hume
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
14 other quotes from Clarence Darrow
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
18 more thoughts from Washington Irving
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
11 other views from Charlie Chaplin
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
12 more sayings from Thornton Wilder
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 more sayings from William Shakespeare
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
20 other thoughts from Anatole France
To do a great right do a little wrong.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Life should be great rather than long.
6 quotes from B. R. Ambedkar
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
20 other quotes from Anatole France
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
16 views from Otto von Bismarck
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
17 views from John Burroughs
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
21 thoughts from Bette Davis
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
46 views from John F. Kennedy
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
24 views from Joseph Addison
To be great is to be misunderstood.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
24 other sayings from Joseph Addison
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
33 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
53 other thoughts from Honore de Balzac
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
15 quotes from Orson Welles
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
52 more views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Produce great men, the rest follows.
30 more sayings from Walt Whitman
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
26 thoughts from Harry S. Truman
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
30 wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
33 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
33 views from Thomas Huxley
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
52 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
53 sayings from Honore de Balzac
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
30 thoughts from Walt Whitman
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
53 other views from Honore de Balzac
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
30 more thoughts from Walt Whitman
A great man is always willing to be little.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
30 other quotes from Walt Whitman
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
14 more quotes from Golda Meir
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
5 more views from Martha Graham
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
22 views from Soren Kierkegaard
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
23 wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
52 more thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
135 other sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great object is that every man be armed.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
23 other thoughts from E. W. Howe
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
31 thoughts from Helen Keller
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
59 other views from Elbert Hubbard
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
3 more sayings from Jose Rizal
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
6 quotes from Charles Kingsley
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Men are only as great as they are kind.
59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
28 other quotes from William Butler Yeats
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
57 other wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
21 more sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
26 other quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
5 quotes from Igor Stravinsky
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
15 thoughts from Norman Cousins
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
9 wisdom & wit from Adam Smith
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
57 wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
17 other views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
3 quotes from Anna Letitia Barbauld
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
6 quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
3 more quotes from Frederic Bastiat
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
28 views from William Butler Yeats
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Great art picks up where nature ends.
5 quotes from Marc Chagall
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
19 other sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
17 sayings from Calvin Coolidge
The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
11 quotes from William Osler
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
2 more quotes from Stanley Kubrick
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
5 other quotes from Frida Kahlo
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
17 views from Calvin Coolidge
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
An index is a great leveller.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Being is the great explainer.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
10 quotes from John D. Rockefeller
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
18 other quotes from Marcel Proust
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
17 more wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
32 thoughts from Henry Ford
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
13 other sayings from Dag Hammarskjold
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
19 quotes from E. B. White
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 views from Ernest Hemingway
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Great loves too must be endured.
16 other wisdom & wit from Coco Chanel
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
31 views from Mae West
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
9 thoughts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
18 other quotes from Mother Teresa
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.
5 more thoughts from Leonard Bernstein
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
22 thoughts from Samuel Richardson
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
17 more quotes from John Dryden
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
15 other views from John Locke
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
18 more quotes from Andy Warhol
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
13 thoughts from Herman Melville
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
19 more quotes from H. G. Wells
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
63 views from Samuel Johnson
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
90 more wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
14 wisdom & wit from F. Scott Fitzgerald
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
90 more thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
63 other views from Samuel Johnson
No man was ever great by imitation.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
7 quotes from Swami Sivananda
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
90 more views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
14 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
90 more views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
10 quotes from Robert Benchley
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
18 more quotes from John Adams
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
17 thoughts from John Lennon
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
9 other quotes from Niels Bohr
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
29 wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
28 sayings from Napoleon Hill
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
18 more sayings from John Adams
Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
3 thoughts from Katherine Mansfield
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
100 other wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
28 views from Napoleon Hill
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
36 views from Theodore Roosevelt
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
16 other thoughts from Denis Diderot
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
18 other quotes from John Adams
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Success has always been a great liar.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
17 more quotes from John Lennon
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
8 quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
24 sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
19 quotes from John Keats
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
7 quotes from Matthew Henry
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
16 quotes from Denis Diderot
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
9 wisdom & wit from Niels Bohr
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
13 views from Jean Rostand
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
7 quotes from Louis D. Brandeis
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
52 more quotes from George Eliot
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
3 quotes from George Edward Moore
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
5 more sayings from Marya Mannes
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
32 wisdom & wit from William Blake
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
52 sayings from George Eliot
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
29 other quotes from Friedrich Schiller
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
52 other wisdom & wit from George Eliot
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
13 other views from Andrew Carnegie
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
32 more thoughts from William Blake
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
52 views from George Eliot
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
2 wisdom & wit from Lope de Vega
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
52 sayings from George Eliot
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
39 more sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
78 quotes from Voltaire
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
25 more wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
98 views from Mark Twain
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
32 thoughts from Martin Luther
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
74 more wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
98 more sayings from Mark Twain
My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
13 sayings from Andrew Carnegie
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
3 more views from James K. Polk
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
78 quotes from Voltaire
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
9 more views from Pope John XXIII
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
11 other quotes from Henry Van Dyke
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
10 other quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
78 other sayings from Voltaire
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
52 other views from Albert Camus
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
All great peoples are conservative.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
7 more wisdom & wit from Phillips Brooks
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
4 other sayings from Paracelsus
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
58 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
21 views from Jane Austen
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
58 more thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
9 quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
58 other sayings from Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
58 more views from Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
10 more quotes from Marlene Dietrich
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
58 views from Thomas Carlyle
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
9 sayings from Willa Cather
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
26 other thoughts from Emily Dickinson
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
68 sayings from Samuel Butler
Great countries are those that produce great people.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
8 quotes from Stephen Leacock
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
9 quotes from Willa Cather
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
75 other thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
46 more views from George Santayana
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
9 sayings from Willa Cather
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
2 more quotes from William Barclay
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
21 thoughts from Jane Austen
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
16 more wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
45 other views from Thomas Fuller
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
45 more thoughts from Thomas Fuller
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
67 views from Francis Bacon
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
36 more wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
17 quotes from Plutarch
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
9 sayings from Barry Goldwater
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.
3 more quotes from Danny Kaye
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
37 views from Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
37 more wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
37 other quotes from Edmund Burke
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
25 thoughts from Orison Swett Marden
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
7 thoughts from Tallulah Bankhead
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
6 more quotes from Tacitus
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
36 thoughts from Lord Byron
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
67 other thoughts from Francis Bacon
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
15 views from Albert Schweitzer
They never fail who die in a great cause.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
17 more quotes from Plutarch
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
26 more quotes from E. M. Forster
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
67 other quotes from Francis Bacon
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
7 views from Lewis Carroll
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
16 views from Alan Watts
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
40 more sayings from William James
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
45 views from Thomas Fuller
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
40 quotes from William James
Great hopes make great men.
45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller
Half a truth is often a great lie.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
96 other thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
19 other views from Edgar Allan Poe
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
16 quotes from Isaac Asimov
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
24 wisdom & wit from W. C. Fields
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
40 quotes from William James
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
15 other sayings from Moliere
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
40 more quotes from William James
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
14 wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
25 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
9 more quotes from Swami Vivekananda
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
25 more views from Orison Swett Marden
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
73 views from Victor Hugo
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
13 more quotes from Ansel Adams
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
7 other wisdom & wit from Walter Bagehot
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
45 sayings from John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
45 views from John Ruskin
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
45 more quotes from John Ruskin
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
23 other thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
6 quotes from Huey Newton
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
8 thoughts from James Dean
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
8 wisdom & wit from Charles Darwin
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.
12 views from John Barrymore
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
47 other wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
26 views from Charles Dickens
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
73 more sayings from Victor Hugo
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
23 more sayings from Thomas A. Edison
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
8 wisdom & wit from Dwight L. Moody
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
31 sayings from Thomas Paine
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
24 more views from James Russell Lowell
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
45 views from John Ruskin
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
25 quotes from Simone Weil
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
45 sayings from John Ruskin
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
24 quotes from James Russell Lowell
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
12 quotes from George Jean Nathan
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
29 views from Arthur Schopenhauer
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
26 more quotes from Charles Dickens
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
45 other thoughts from John Ruskin
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
4 more wisdom & wit from James A. Michener
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
26 wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
8 wisdom & wit from James Dean
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
8 views from James Dean
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer