Best Grandeur Words
236 Grandeur quotes by 196 unique authors
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God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the…
— John Cassian
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...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of…
— Barbara Ann Kipfer
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I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur…
— Bebe Neuwirth
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Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two…
— Benjamin Franklin
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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different…
— Hu Shih
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The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports…
— William Sanderson
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion...
— Albert Einstein
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History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It…
— Paul Valery
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
— Barbara Tuchman
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He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the…
— Alice Miller
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Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
— Thomas de Quincey
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, --…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would…
— Andre Gide
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Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid…
— Amy Lowell
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than…
— Jimmy Carter
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and…
— Raymond Chandler
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The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
— Francois Mauriac
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Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the…
— Bruce Oldfield
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is…
— Alan Parsons
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