Great men Quote by Claude Bernard

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

— Claude Bernard

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

— Joseph Heller

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all…

— Joseph Heller

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be…

— Luc de Clapiers

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

— B. C. Forbes

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for…

— Charles Dickens

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that…

— Anonymous

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is…

— William Hazlitt

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious…

— Walter Russell

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci