Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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