“He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Source: Nature
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Source: Nature
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Review of Tropic of Cancer, in New English Weekly (14 November 1935)
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor
Generation of Greatness (1957)
Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
“I sped a prayer heavenward. God needs to be reminded.”
Glen Cook book Water Sleeps
Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 75 (p. 265)