Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Justice is truth in action.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

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.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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 or the prejudices of the few.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Ignorance never settles a question.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

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.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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.

A precedent embalms a principle.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

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.

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.