Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Mean, Greatness

• Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Greatness, Mind, Pay

• It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Greatness, Men, Age

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