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.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for great enough to die for.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it because they have no imagination.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
If you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health slow your mind make you fat - in other words turn you into an adult.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work Stick-to-itiveness and Common sense.
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Better a little which is well done than a great deal imperfectly.
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
If there is not the war you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Where there is great love there are always wishes.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.