“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Related Quotes “We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”– Dick Gregory “You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”– Alan Watts “Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”– Walt Whitman