One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.
—Henry Ford
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
—Voltaire
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.
—Stephen Hawking
For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
—Sun Tzu
“One of the greatest works of grace in the heart is to humble our pride.”
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”
– Charles Spurgeon
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
—Isaac Newton
New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.
—Immanuel Kant
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
—Julius Caesar
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
—Plato
The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.
—Laozi
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
—Immanuel Kant
Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
—Seneca
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
—Heraclitus
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
—Charles Darwin
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
—Immanuel Kant
The great aim and scope at all Christ’s ordinances and officers, are to bring men into union with Christ, and so build them up to perfection in him; or to unite them to, and confirm them in Christ.
—John Flavel
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
—Henry David Thoreau
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
—George Washington