black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Benjamin Haydon

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Men Successful
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Divinity Genius Sparks
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devotional Persons True Religion
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Believe Disinterestedness Men
All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Government Monarchy Two
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Devil Satan Triumph
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Adversaries Friends Race
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Both Real Responsibility Responsible
Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
BENJAMIN HAYDON

God Justice Real
Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Conscience Duty Swerve
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Age Reputation Suffering
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Improvement Inspirational Life Self
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Heart Love Malice Wit
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
BENJAMIN HAYDON

Evil Human Nature Propensity

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Haydon Quotes