Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or combined:
“The greatest thing of the world is for a man to know how to be his own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“... overconfidence in one’s own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)