#great

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#insanity #intelligence #sanity #intelligence

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#know #little #men #much #people

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . ↗

— Mario Puzo

#men

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#great-things #men

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#men

In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf. ↗

— Alistair McHarg

#dark-comedy #great-dialogue #humor #quirky-characters #social-satire

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fundamental #great #i #i believe #i believe in

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. ↗

— Henry Miller

#anyone #belief #destiny #enough #great

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#defiance #despair #done #god #greatest