Benjamin Disraeli Inspiring Quotes
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
“The expected always happens”
A canter is the cure for all evil.”
“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”
“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
“Little things affect little minds.”
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”
“Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”
“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
“A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’
That depends, Sir,’ said Disraeli, ‘whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
“There is no education like adversity.”
“If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. ”
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”
“Read no history–nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
“Success is the child of audacity.”
“The canter is a cure for every evil.”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
“Justice is truth in action.”
“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”
“Silence is the mother of truth.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”
“Ignorance never settles a question.”
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”
“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”
“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
“Life is too short to be little.”
“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”
“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”
