Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or combined:
“We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“... 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)