Benjamin Quotes

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

That which hurts, also instructs.

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

My job is to awaken possibility in other people.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.