Able Quote by John Tillotson Download Open image “To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.” — John Tillotson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Argument Bears Forgiving Great minds Mind Provocation Psychology Reason
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Pretending to be okay is a natural defense mechanism of the mind. A persons way of attempting to remains strong! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The mind is a powerful thing, when filled with positive thoughts only great things can happen. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
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