Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
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 of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.Benjamin Disraeli
It is easier to be critical than correct.Benjamin Disraeli
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...Benjamin Disraeli
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
