Argument Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Briefest Briefest Wisest Inspirational Maxim Tells Maxims Wise Wisest Wisest Maxim
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume Copy Share Image
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure. — Harvey Dorfman Copy Share Image
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If in the middle of an argument I suddenly fall silent it does not mean you have won... No it means you should probably… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
