Great Quotes

Small: No crime is so great as daring to excel
Winston Churchill
"No crime is so great as daring to excel"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
Small: I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another mat
Winston Churchill
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
Small: All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, me
Winston Churchill
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
Small: They never fail who die in a great cause
Lord Byron
"They never fail who die in a great cause"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment
Lord Byron
"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thir
Sigmund Freud
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
Small: The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterrane
Sigmund Freud
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
Small: That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject
George Santayana
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject"
George Santayana, Philosopher
Small: The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of pr
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
Small: Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purp
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
Small: The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas
George Santayana
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas"
George Santayana, Philosopher
Small: Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest when the body has sunk into the dust the great name st
Friedrich Schiller
"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine
Friedrich Schiller
"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance
Friedrich Schiller
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equ
"This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones"
Desmond Morris, Scientist
Small: I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls
Henry David Thoreau
"I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
Small: Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true w
Henry David Thoreau
"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
Small: Being is the great explainer
Henry David Thoreau
"Being is the great explainer"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
Small: We shouldnt teach great books we should teach a love of reading
B. F. Skinner
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading"
B. F. Skinner, Psychologist
Small: He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger
Confucius
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger"
Confucius, Philosopher
Small: The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a
"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
Small: One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of V
Martin Luther King Jr.
"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
Small: The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
Small: We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but
Richard M. Nixon
"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another"
Richard M. Nixon, President
Small: On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be m
Karl Marx
"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Small: I dont think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and chang
Richard M. Nixon
"I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction"
Richard M. Nixon, President
Small: Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval.
Karl Marx
"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Small: A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night
Marilyn vos Savant
"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
Small: The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion
Thomas Carlyle
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better
Thomas Carlyle
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing
Thomas Carlyle
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: All great peoples are conservative
Thomas Carlyle
"All great peoples are conservative"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men
Thomas Carlyle
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: I dont pretend to understand the Universe - its a great deal bigger than I am
Thomas Carlyle
"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom
Thomas Carlyle
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than
"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence"
Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher
Small: Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that sh
"Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction"
Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher
Small: India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thi
"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration"
Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher
Small: Never was anything great achieved without danger
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Never was anything great achieved without danger"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
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