Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
Vera Wang

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
Saint Francis de Sales

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Eric Hoffer

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes