Great Men Quotes - Page 15

• There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

  Margot Asquith

  Greatness, Men, Intellectual

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Greatness, Men, Mediocre

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• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  William Empson

  Reason Why, Impossible, Remember

  William Empson (1966). “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, p.249, New Directions Publishing

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• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1907.

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• The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Hero, Past

  "Qinyuanchun (Snow)". Poem by Mao Zedong, 1945.

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• Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man.

  David Herbert Donald

  Moving, Warrior, Men

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.

  Mary Travers

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

  "Mary Travers of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72". www.cnn.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

  Timothy Findley

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.

  David Eisenberg

  Pain, Perception, Acupuncture

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• Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Men, Genius, Crowds

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres

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• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Work, Men

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC

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• There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Truth, Believe, People

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2013). “Democracy in America -”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.

  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

  Science, Men, Artist

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• Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Men, Upset, Ferrari

  Thoroughbred & Classic Cars interview, January 1, 1991.

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• And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Being Yourself, Men, Thinking

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• The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, World, Levels

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, World, Found

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Men, Thinking, Heroism

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do

  Bruce Catton

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

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• The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

  Joseph Murphy

  Men, Secret, Mind

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS

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• I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great men of God like Brother Kenneth E. Hagin that we are able to see further into the Word of God today. Growing up, I learned a lot about faith from Brother Hagin who truly had a special revelation of faith from the Lord. I deeply honor and respect him for all that he has taught me.

  Joseph Prince

  Brother, Growing Up, Teaching

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• Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this . . . . The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents. . . . Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Math, Men, Differences

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• Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Depressing, Men, Minutes

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