Great men Quote by Anonymous

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

— William Halsey

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The great are not famous, and the famous are not great

— Dennis Prager

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

— William Hazlitt

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of…

— Jacque Fresco

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the…

— Geoffrey Elton

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a certain sense all men are historians.

— Thomas Carlyle

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination.

— Anurag Prakash Ray