Humans Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Kind Libertarian Libertarianism Liberty Mind Nature of man Propaganda Psychology Tyranny Worst
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, candefend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
