Quotes about Great

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.

At the heart of all great movements is a recovery of a simple Christology (essential conceptions of who Jesus is and what he does), yet one that accurately reflects the Jesus of New Testament faith—they are in a very literal sense Jesus movements.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!