977 private quotes tagged great

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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”— Victor Hugo
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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.”— Voltaire
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“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”— Victor Hugo
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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”— Oscar Wilde
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“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.”— Stephen Hawking
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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”— Victor Hugo
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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.”— Bertrand Russell
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“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.”— Samuel Johnson
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“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.”— Herman Melville
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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.”— Steven Wright
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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.”— Harry S. Truman
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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”— Edmund Burke
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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”— Richard Dawkins
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“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Great countries are those that produce great people.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”— George Eliot
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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”— Edmund Burke