Greatness Quotes

2048 Greatness quotes by 1107 unique authors

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on.… — Bob Dylan
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be… — John Donne
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. — Seneca the Younger
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach… — Khalil Gibran
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event… — Leo Tolstoy
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has… — Phillips Brooks
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. — Samuel Johnson
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. — Jean de la Bruyere
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. — Francis Picabia
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death. — Ernest Renan
I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the… — Max Perutz
In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious… — Henry Ward Beecher
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;… — Richard Hamming
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of… — Wilfred Trotter
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an… — Thomas Huxley
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it,… — Louis Pasteur
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. — Charles Caleb Colton

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