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Great Man Quotes (page 8)

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. Leonardo da Vinci
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. Victor Hugo
Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face. Loren Eiseley
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Albert Camus
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of almost every one of us! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Albert Einstein
Billy Graham quote: "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The..."
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Billy Graham
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for..."
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Mahatma Gandhi
Thomas Fuller quote: "Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at,..."
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. Thomas Fuller
Desiderius Erasmus quote: "Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any..."
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Desiderius Erasmus
Frederick Douglass quote: "Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper..."
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Man is only great when he acts from passion."
Man is only great when he acts from passion. Benjamin Disraeli
Jacques Yves Cousteau quote: "Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard..."
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. Norman Cousins
Blaise Pascal quote: "Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal

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