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Quotes About Great

mathematicians of that century, like those of most great periods, were the very physicists and astronomers who raised the questions,
~ Morris Kline
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
~ Muriel Spark
As the messenger and great prophet of God, Jesus cannot deceive the people whom he was sent to deliver the message to.
~ Unknown
Criticism is great when it's based on concrete arguments, but useless when it's done out of jealousy.
~ Unknown
Leadership is a necessity and there is nothing to be ashamed of when you are such a great leader.
~ Unknown
Public geniuses who are able to stir the multitudes into action are great speakers, but not good listeners and that suits them well.
~ Unknown
The irony of hell in the minds of the multitude is that the devil must punish the wrongdoers, rather than the good people who have done great deeds in the world.
~ Unknown
Strange things have been spoken, why does your heart speak strangely? The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror.
~ Unknown
In particular, it may explain how the mission of the church is organically and intimately related to the great events at the heart of the faith.
~ Unknown
Glad tidings of great joy I bringTo you and all mankind.
~ Nahum Tate
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Peter) Easy to see in hindsight, but also easy to feel that, in another great city, on another continent, I was erasing her four years of unhappiness and setting her charmed life back on course.
~ Unknown
I count upon taking [the French people] by surprise. A bold deed upsets people's equanimity, and they are dumbfounded by a great novelty.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
~ Napoleon
Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The Great Spirit, when He made earth, never intended that it should be made merchandise.
~ Unknown
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
~ Neil Diamond
theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.
~ Neil Postman
To burn the helicopters would be another act of great psychological value, and the battalion commander did not want to surrender the opportunity lightly.
~ Neil Sheehan
I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom,
~ Nelson Mandela
This River (sawco), as I am told by the Savages, cometh from a great mountain called the Cristall hill, being as they say 100 miles in the Country, yet it is to be seene at the sea side, and there is no ship ariuse in
~ Unknown
The great offensives of the future would be psychological, and . . . the most deadly weapon in the world was the power of mass-persuasion . . . In
~ Unknown