Great Names Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost… — Mark Twain
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their… — Thomas A. Edison
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit… — Knut Hamsun
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing — Lord Acton
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported… — Claude Bernard
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those… — Cecil Frank Powell
We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued… — Brigham Young
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who… — Charles Caleb Colton
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names… — William Hazlitt
Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose… — Severo Ochoa
Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to… — Marcel Dionne
What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names,… — Simon Hoggart

Who Wrote These Great Names Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Great Names Quotes as follows: