
„There is no index of character so sure as the voice.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
„There is no index of character so sure as the voice.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
„The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Variant: The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
„I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, ch. 3.
Books
— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591
The Sayings of Light and Love
„We will our Rights in Learning's World maintain,
Wit's Empire, now, shall know a Female Reign.“
— Sarah Egerton English actress 1782 - 1847
Source: The Emulation http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/emulation (1703), Lines 32–33
— Gavrilo Princip Bosnian assassin 1894 - 1918
Said to the prison warden on being moved to another prison; as quoted by Borivoje Jevtic (1914) http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
— Daniel Kahneman, book Thinking, Fast and Slow
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 19, "The illusion of understanding", page 201 (ISBN 9780141033570).
— Alhazen Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer 965 - 1039
Alhazen, quoted in “Muslim Journeys.” Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013. Also in Ibn al-Haytham Brief life of an Arab mathematician: died circa 1040 (September-October 2003) http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/09/ibn-al-haytham-html
— Carlos Castaneda, book The Wheel of Time
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
„The past is just a story we tell ourselves.“
— Spike Jonze American director and actor 1969
Source: her
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 185
— Shavkat Mirziyoyev President of Uzbekistan (2016-present) 1957
"Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Every young man is as dear to me as to his parents" in UZ Daily https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/post/63421 (4 February 2021)
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVxciEFyBT0&t=32m42s
— Jani Allan South African columnist and broadcaster 1952
http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/pwords.html
Other
„God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.“
— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916
As quoted in the opening of The Chalice of Immortality - Page xi - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1402215037