Great Quotes

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

All great things are done for their own sake.

I always entertain great hopes.

Of all crimes the worstIs to steal the gloryFrom the great and brave,Even more accursedThan to rob the grave.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day - for burning fire-crackers!!!

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Writing ... is the great invention of the world.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself, and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Today I am at the head of the strongest Army in the world, the most gigantic Air Force and of a proud Navy. Behind and around me stands the Party with which I became great and which has become great through me... Our enemies must not deceive themselves - in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.