Earth Quote by Anonymous

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

— Karl Popper

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut…

— Heraclitus

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the…

— Rachel Carson

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

— Evan Esar

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

— Marcus Aurelius

[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

— Thomas Carlyle

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

— Henri Frederic Amiel