Good enough Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good enough Trust
It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power — John Adams Copy Share Image
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The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. — Lyman Bryson Copy Share Image
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but… — Giacomo Casanova 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
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I may never be good enough for everybody. But I'll always be the best for someone who's contented to have me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fear of not being good enough, the fear of disappointing other people and the fear of failure can really hurt one's personality and… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
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I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent. — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
