Famous Quotes

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 Gilbert K. Chesterton

• "Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past."

• "All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change."

• "Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

• "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

• "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."