Benjamin Disraeli Thinking Quotations

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

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

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.