Benjamin Disraeli
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.Collection: Knowledge
There is no education like adversity.Collection: Education
Justice is truth in action.Collection: Truth
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.Collection: Time
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Collection: Success
Never complain and never explain.Collection: Motivational
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.Collection: Experience
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Politics
Success is the child of audacity.Collection: Success
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.Collection: Happiness
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.Collection: Independence
London is a roost for every bird.Collection: Travel
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.Collection: Government
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.Collection: Great
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Collection: Love
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.Collection: Knowledge
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.Collection: History
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.Collection: Imagination
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Faith
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.Collection: Truth
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.Collection: Relationship
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.Collection: Women
Never take anything for granted.Collection: Thankful
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.Collection: Marriage
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.Collection: Happiness
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Collection: Best
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Life
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Trust
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.Collection: Love
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.Collection: Inspirational
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Collection: Fear
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.Collection: Beauty
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.Collection: Power
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.Collection: Failure
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.Collection: Government
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.Collection: Hope
Silence is the mother of truth.Collection: Truth
Man is only great when he acts from passion.Collection: Wisdom
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.Collection: Sympathy
Without tact you can learn nothing.Collection: Education
We cannot learn men from books.Collection: Education
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.Collection: Nature
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.Collection: Success
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Collection: Fear
There is no gambling like politics.Collection: Politics