Great Quotes - page 3

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. (John D. Rockefeller)
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. View quote
Françoise Sagan
It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are. View quote
O. Henry
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. View quote
Washington Irving
Meetings are a great trap. ... they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. View quote
Emil Cioran
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. View quote
Edith Wharton
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. (Christopher Marlowe)
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. View quote
Lawrence Klein
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. View quote
Mother Teresa
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. View quote
Ilya Ehrenburg
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. View quote
Stephen Spender
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. View quote
Clarence Darrow
To be great is to be misunderstood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. View quote
Robertson Davies
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. View quote
Joseph Joubert