Famous Quotes

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

Thornton Wilder 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 Thornton Wilder

• "The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

• "But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."

• "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."

• "The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

• "We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."