Quotes by Dean Inge

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

#Wisdom

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked...

#Parents

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely...

#Government

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed...

#Government

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

#Leisure

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years...

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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

#Dean Inge

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape...

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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends,...

#Dean Inge

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy....

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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself...

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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the...

#Dean Inge