Quote by William Hazlitt

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Summary

This quote explains the transformative power of putting great thoughts into action. It suggests that when we take our ideas or intellectual insights and actively apply them in real-life situations, they have the potential to become significant and impactful deeds. It emphasizes that it is not enough to simply think or contemplate, but rather, to actualize our thoughts through practical implementation. It highlights the value of taking initiative and bringing our ideas to life, as it is through such actions that greatness can be achieved.

Topics

By William Hazlitt

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories o

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream thin

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Robert Francis Kennedy

As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency current

As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work.

Albert Einstein

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Fl

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morni

I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's wh

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tre

It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.

If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions:

If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of na

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Nationalism Nation Nationality

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who p

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Lord Chesterfield

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of persona

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.