T Quotes
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“The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.”
“The greatest man in history was the poorest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.”
“The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.”
“The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.”
“The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'”
“The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.”
“The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”
“The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature would seem quite inconceivable. This power of producing its likeness that resides in animals and plants, this form of unity, always subsisting and appearing eternal, this procreative virtue which is perpetually expressed without ever being destroyed, is for us a mystery which, it seems, we will never be able to fathom.”
“The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.”
Source: Antonio Gramsci
“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
“The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.”
“The greatest material gains and achievements in the world are not good or bad, or right or wrong—they’re just not enough. Like the toys we quit playing with as children, we simply lose interest as we grow up.”
Source: Be Who You Are: A Father's Empowering Message about the Point of Life
“The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.”
“The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.”
“The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.”
“The greatest measure of success is not money but a calm and loving mind.”
“The greatest measure of success is that which is not noticed at all.”
“The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
“The greatest medicine is a true friend.”
Source: The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679
“The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it”
“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.”
“The greatest meditation is revolution for assimilation.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“The greatest melancholy is created by failing to initiate the change of discontent.”
“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia.”
Source: April Showers bring May Flowers: Diary of a ten-year-old school girl
“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.”
“The greatest men are the ones that realize they are not.”
“The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.”
Source: The works of Peter Pindar
“The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.”
“The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.”
“The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.”
“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”
Source: Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration
“The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.”
Source: Communal Unity
“The greatest mentor one can acquire in life is solitude.”
“The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.”
Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of
“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.”
“The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.”
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations
“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.”
Source: French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.”
“The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.”
“The greatest miracle is to be alive.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“The greatest miracle is when God closes a door that would be dangerous, when you thought it was a door you required.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“The greatest miracle of all, the human being.”
Source: More in Anger
“The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.”
“The greatest miracle of our generation is to be born on Earth and buried on another planet.”
“The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.”
“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”