~ Greatness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

R. H. Tawney

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Charles Reade

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Jean de la Bruyere

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Sigmund Freud

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle