greatness Quotes

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:truth greatness soul

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature greatness

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will...”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“To make America the greatest is my goal, So I beat the Russians, and I beat the Pole, and for the USA won the Medal of Gold. Italians said, 'You're Greater than the Cassius of Old.'”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

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“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

topic:greatness patience

“He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”

― Jack London, White Fang

topic:life greatness

“it's better to write of great deeds than to perform trivial ones”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

topic:writing action greatness

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