Grandeur Quotes

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

— Mason Cooley

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

— Albert Einstein

You know what grandeur is? It's awesome.

— Chris Kaman

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

— Alexander Smith

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

— Blaise Pascal

“The grandeur of God, the glory of His majesty.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

— Louise Colet

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

— Craig Stone

“Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.”

— Bryant McGill

“The true path of life leads through the narrow valley of grandeur.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.”

— Clifford Whittingham Beers

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from…

— Mary Astell

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had…

— Janet Flanner

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness…

— Jimmy Carter

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain…

— V. S. Naipaul

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from…

— Jared Sparks

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out…

— Amy Lowell

Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches…

— Orison Swett Marden

Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage.…

— William Batchelder Greene

Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army?…

— Nora Roberts

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…

— Hugh Nibley

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,…

— Thomas Starr King

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned…

— Eric Hoffer

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to…

— Albert Einstein

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free…

— Charles Lindbergh

Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the…

— Joseph Addison

You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think…

— Tamora Pierce

“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my…

— Colm Tóibín

The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the…

— A. O. Scott