We cannot learn men from books.
Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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We cannot learn men from books.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
- Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
- Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Finality is not the language of politics.
- The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
- Success is the child of audacity.
- Travel teaches toleration.
- Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Best Quotes
- Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.