"It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!" (Benjamin Disraeli, "Curiosities of Literature" Vol. 3, 1824)
"Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds." (Benjamin Disraeli, "The Young Duke", 1831)
"Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything." (Benjamin Disraeli, "Contarini Fleming", 1832)
"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens." (Benjamin Disraeli, "Henrietta Temple", 1837)
"Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data." (Benjamin Disraeli, 1847)
"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." (Benjamin Disraeli, "Endymion", 1880)
"Imagination is too often accompanied by somewhat irregular logic." (Benjamin Disraeli, "Wit and Wisdom, Imagination", 1881)
"The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble. (Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", 1870)
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Ignorance never settles a question." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter." (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)
"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"There is no education like adversity." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful." (Benjamin Disraeli)
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