Logo
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the lat

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. – William R. Alger

Category:
Quotations

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Quotations

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said. – Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated from Latin

Category:
Quotations

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. – Francis H. Bradley, Aphorisms, 1930

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. – Richard Milhous Nixon

Category:
Watergate

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know whats going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

Category:
Nature

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. – Pam Brown

Category:
Cats

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. – William Ellery Channing

Category:
great