Great Quotes

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Power is the great aphrodisiac. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. View quote
Homer
All great truths begin as blasphemies. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Silence is a source of great strength. (Laozi)
Never was anything great achieved without danger. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. View quote
Plutarch
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises. View quote
Demosthenes
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. View quote
Hesiod
Great thoughts always come from the heart. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. View quote
Seneca
A great fortune is a great slavery. View quote
Seneca
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration nay, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. (Plutarch)
You have to study a great deal to know a little. View quote
Montesquieu
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. View quote
Hector Berlioz
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. View quote
Mark Twain
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. View quote
John Dewey
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