The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

The only greatness for man is immortality.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.