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Greatness Quotes (page 7)

Albert Einstein quote: "Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from..."
Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
Aristotle quote: "Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. Aristotle
Margaret Mitchell quote: "Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call..."
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. Margaret Mitchell
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be... Stephen Fry
Albert Camus quote: "Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or..."
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. Albert Camus
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. Jules Verne
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. Guy de Maupassant
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
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always..."
Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees. Jeffrey Eugenides
Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says Anatole France
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "great is the art"
great is the art Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Aldous Huxley quote: "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of..."
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. Aldous Huxley
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Great men exist that there may be greater men."
Great men exist that there may be greater men. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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