Great Quotes

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

~ J.k. Rowling

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

~ George Bernard Shaw

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

~ Walter Lippmann

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

~ Arthur H. Compton

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

~ Kevin Spacey

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

~ Noah Webster

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

~ Sun Ra

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

~ John Mellencamp

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

~ John Malkovich

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

~ Ronald Fisher

As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.

~ Burgess Owens

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

~ Patrick Lencioni

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

~ Kevin Rudd

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

~ Pablo Casals

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

~ Sydney Smith

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

~ Tom Brokaw

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.

~ Lewis Howes

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

~ Major Taylor

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

~ Brian Sandoval

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

~ Sydney Smith

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

~ Jane Campion

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

~ Eddie Marsan

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

~ Richard Dawkins

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

~ Jesse Ventura

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

~ Phil Klay

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.

~ Ellen Key

I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.

~ Chad Hurley

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

~ Nathaniel Philbrick

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

~ Oriana Fallaci

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

~ Tom Reiss

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

~ David Whyte

My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.

~ Brad Thor

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

~ Paul Johnson

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

~ Marv Levy

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

~ Jerry Costello