"It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."

Disraeli, Benjamin on reason   

"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin on religion
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"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

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"The secret of success is consistency of purpose."

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"Success is the child of audacity."

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on action
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"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

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"Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing."

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"Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd."

Disraeli, Benjamin on tact and tactfulness
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"Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything."

Disraeli, Benjamin on tact and tactfulness   

"A person's fate is their own temper."

Disraeli, Benjamin on temperament
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Disraeli, Benjamin on thoughts and thinking
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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth   

"Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose."

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on circumstance
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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; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

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"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism
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"The secret of success is constancy of purpose. "

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"Never complain and never explain. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. "

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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

Gandhi, Mahatma on food and eating
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on potential
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

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"Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason."

Gandhi, Mahatma on reason
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-control
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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