Great Quotes: Wisdom from the Greatest Minds (Page 13)

"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion"

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Thrift is of great revenue"

Cicero, Philosopher

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is"

Cicero, Philosopher

"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Life in abundance comes only through great love"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter"

Plato, Philosopher

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others"

Plato, Philosopher

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand"

Plato, Philosopher

"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune"

Plato, Philosopher

"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly"

Plato, Philosopher

"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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"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"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

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