977 private quotes tagged great

“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.” — Edmund Burke

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“The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.” — Voltaire

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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” — George Eliot

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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” — Victor Hugo

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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” — Plato

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“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.” — Bertrand Russell

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“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.” — Voltaire

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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

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“A great artist is a great man in a great child.” — Victor Hugo

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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.” — Samuel Butler

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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.” — Plutarch

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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” — Pablo Picasso

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“You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.” — Albert Einstein

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” — Edmund Burke

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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” — Richard Dawkins

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“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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