Best Greater Thoughts
4548 Greater quotes by 2699 unique authors
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
— Ernest Rutherford
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which…
— Charles de Gaulle
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Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.
— Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
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Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself....
— Unknown Author
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What…
— David Steindl-Rast
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed…
— William Shakespeare
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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far…
— H. L. Mencken
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater…
— Alistair Cooke
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
— Walter Savage Landor
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.
— Francis of Assisi
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We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor,…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater…
— Walter Reuther
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
— Michel de Montaigne
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
— Robert Ringer
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
— Seneca the Younger
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion…
— Sissela Bok
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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
— Maria Montessori
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Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those…
— Howard W. Hunter
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I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some…
— Catherine Marshall
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