To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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