Great ones Quote by Matthew Arnold Download Open image “How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!” — Matthew Arnold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great ones Mind Secrecy Solitude
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide? — David Markson Copy Share Image
Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory?… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to include the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals.… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The truth is that Ron is my hero. He's always there for his friends - sometimes belligerently, but there nevertheless. He's also the comic… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
