The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.