There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls… — Doc Rivers Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Increase. Being fruitful is a good and necessary start, but it should grow into the next phase, increase. Once again, even though… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine. — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great… — Basil Peters Copy Share Image
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of… — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
“Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and… — JC Marino Copy Share Image
Great men are just ordinary men, who wont quit! Dont quit on Gods plan & purpose for your life! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
