Famous Quotes

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age."

• "Age merely shows what children we remain."

• "The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

• "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

• "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."