Achievement Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

— Charles de Gaulle

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith…

— John Ruskin

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value)…

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to…

— Hermann Hesse

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

— Bell Hooks

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for…

— Andre Alexis

“A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than…

— Amy Cuddy

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

— Karl Barth

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

— Barack Obama

“There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather…

— Ahdaf Soueif