“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
Audendo magnus tegitur timor.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book IV, line 702 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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“It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 420.
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“1752. Great and Good are seldom the same Man.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Wallace Brett Donham (1877–1954) American academic
As cited by Drew Gilpin Faust, " Harvard Business School Centennial http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2008/harvard-business-school-centennial," at harvard.edu, October 14, 2008. <br class="br">"The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities", 1933
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting