Great Quotes

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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 China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Great hopes make great men.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.