Famous Quotes

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Isaac Newton

• "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

• "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

• "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

• "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

• "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."