Surest Quotes
271 quotes by 223 authors
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
— Lord Acton
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
— Robert Benchley
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and…
— Henry Bolingbroke
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
— James Buchanan
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
— Dale Carnegie
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
— Dale Carnegie
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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind
— Isaac Pitman
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The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.
— Philip Schaff
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
— William E. Gladstone
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If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to…
— Martin Rees
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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who…
— Benjamin Haydon
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
— Mark Twain
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I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason…
— George W. Bush
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
— Ken Robinson
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in…
— Rumi
Who Wrote These Surest Quotes
223 authors contributed a total of 271 Surest Quotes, led by these top contributors: