The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
‐‐ Reggie Jackson
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
‐‐ Felix Klein
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
‐‐ Mitch Gaylord
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
‐‐ Ernest Renan
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
‐‐ John Acton
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
‐‐ Rene Descartes
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
‐‐ Franz Schubert
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
‐‐ Dean Acheson
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard
The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.
‐‐ Emily Oster
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
‐‐ Julian Baggini
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
‐‐ Bell Hooks
The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.
‐‐ Nick Nolte
The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
‐‐ Greg Lake
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
‐‐ Dayananda Saraswati
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
‐‐ Cory Booker
The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.
‐‐ Nick Vujicic
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
‐‐ Maria Mitchell
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
‐‐ Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
‐‐ Diane Ravitch
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
‐‐ Liz Smith
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
‐‐ Zendaya
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
‐‐ Jason Alexander
The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
‐‐ J. R. Moehringer
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
‐‐ Charles Lamb
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
‐‐ Euripides
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
‐‐ Vernon Lee
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greatest possession is self-possession.
‐‐ Ethel Watts Mumford
The greatest power is often simple patience.
‐‐ E. Joseph Cossman
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
‐‐ J. Martin Kohe
The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
‐‐ A. J. P. Taylor
The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
‐‐ Prem Rawat