Soundest Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor…
— Lord Acton
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It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues…
— John F. Kennedy
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For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.
— Richard M. Nixon
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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
— George Earle Buckle
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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
— Andre Gide
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To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
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A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
— Carrie Newcomer
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Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy
— Sun Tzu
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What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief;…
— Thomas Huxley
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Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
— William Hazlitt
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We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You…
— Samuel Morse
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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.
— Sylvia Porter
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
— Alexander Pope
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Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
— George Will
Who Wrote These Soundest Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Soundest Quotes as follows: