Great Quotes

"Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts"

E. B. White, Writer

"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together"

Petrarch, Poet

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them"

Washington Irving, Writer

"The great object is that every man be armed"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds"

Paul Valery, Poet

"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone"

Paul Valery, Poet

"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Its very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth"

Mary Astell, Writer

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"The great hope of society is in individual character"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to"

Paul Valery, Poet

"The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief"

John Barrymore, Actor

"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers"

Herbert Hoover, President

"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose"

Herbert Hoover, President

"One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values"

Barack Obama, President

"I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator"

Barack Obama, President

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?"

George W. Bush, President

"Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are"

George W. Bush, President

"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart"

Mencius, Philosopher

"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man"

Mencius, Philosopher

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action"

George P. Baker

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