Great minds Quote by Jacques Barzun

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

— Louise Hay

My mind goes to tragedy first.

— Fiona Apple

The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.

— Zhuangzi

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

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

“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

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

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.”

— Karl Jaspers

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