People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.