Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
“And so, since Jesus is tutor and university to us, let us feel that we are bound to reflect credit upon so great a teacher, upon so divine a name.”
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
—Socrates
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
—Aristotle
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
—Plato
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
—Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
—Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
—Plato
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics.
—J. Gresham Machen
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues
—René Descartes
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
—Aristotle
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
—Aristotle
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
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
We know our Lord bears gently with the ignorant and erring, and it is not for us to judge how far the ignorance and error must reach before it passes the confines of His great loving-kindness.
—Amy Carmichael
So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.
—Amy Carmichael
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
—Mark Twain
Men who, acting from worldly principles, make the greatest stir about general philanthropy or zealous patriotism, are often very deficient in their conduct in domestic life.
—William Wilberforce
A great shadow lies upon every man & every woman—the fact that our Lord was bruised & wounded & crucified for the entire human race. This is the basic human responsibility that men are trying to push off & evade.
—AW Tozer
Much religious work is being done these days that will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public are aware of the deception.
—AW Tozer
It is a great thing to know your vices.
—Cicero
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
—Cicero