“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.”
Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
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“When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.”
page 94.
Manual of Political Economy
Scene by Scene interview BBC 2 (1999) http://web.archive.org/20040210020322/members.fortunecity.com/vanessa77/index2005.html
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
Education, p. 57, c 1903, 1952, The Ellen G. White Publications; Pacific Press Publishing Association.
Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to someone else.”
Source: First Love
“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19461026_congresso-catechistico-naz.html, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”