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And people treat you with greater reverence, not as an inquisitor but as a celebrity.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, celebrity, people, contentment

I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.

Quote by Alan Parsons

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about intelligence, originality, people, man

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about mind, things

During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about opinion, progress

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Quote by Simon Pegg about humor, common sense, sense, americans, things

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about criminals

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics, I can assure you mine are far greater

Quote by Albert Einstein about education, mathematics, difficulties, worry, contentment

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about love, solitude, sex, man

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about wisdom, knowledge, use, rightness, man

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Quote by Alexis Carrel about opinion, help, people

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about knowledge, wealth, books, man

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Quote by Oscar Arias Sanchez about liberty

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Quote by Horace Walpole about people, bills, man, things, world

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Quote by Samuel Daniel about fear, absent, danger, things

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Quote by Lope de Vega about love, punishment, glory

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Quote by Benjamin Jonson about fear, prison, hell

Human destiny knows no greater threat than death for unknown reasons!

Quote by Ramon Gomez de la Serna about destiny, death, human imperfections

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about genius, aptitude, patience