Famous Quotes

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

Lord Chesterfield 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 Lord Chesterfield

• "The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

• "In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

• "Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."

• "Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

• "I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."