Great minds Quote by Jacques Barzun Download Open image “Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy” — Jacques Barzun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great minds Mind Psychology Tragedy Yield
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“The instant of a great disaster, it is often said, is an elongated one. As if in witnessing its own demise the human mind… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.” — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, candefend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
