Famous Quotes

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

Daniel J. Boorstin 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 Daniel J. Boorstin

• "A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

• "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

• "An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

• "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

• "The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'"