Famous Quotes

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire 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 Voltaire

• "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

• "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

• "We are rarely proud when we are alone."

• "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

• "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."