Peter the Great — "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Peter the Great
"I have left two heirs, a son and a daughter. And I have left them a great empire, but they must know how to govern it."
"I have often been accused of cruelty, but I have never been cruel without reason."
"To have a strong army and navy, one must have money. To have money, one must have trade. To have trade, one must have a sea port."
"I have no intention of leaving Russia to my successors in the same state as I found it."
"The beard is a superfluous ornament."
About Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Russian tsar (1682-1725) who Westernized Russia, founded St. Petersburg, and built Russia into a European great power. Closely associated with Catherine the Great (later Westernizing Russian empress). For an intellectual contrast, see Old Believers, Russian Orthodox traditionalist movement that rejected Patriarch Nikon's reforms and Peter's modernization — Peter's beard-shaving decrees, Western dress laws, and calendar changes triggered a religious-cultural schism — the founding poles of Russia's eternal 'European modernity vs Slavic tradition' debate that runs through Slavophiles, Solzhenitsyn, and contemporary Putin-era ideology.