Academy Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Great men Greatness Independent Men
Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
