The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: prejudice time humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Charles Caleb Colton Charles Caleb Colton (11 December 1777 – 28 April 1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
More quotations from Charles Caleb Colton There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: honesty reputation praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: money grace propriety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: hate knowledge intimacy familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: honesty reputation praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: money grace propriety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: hate knowledge intimacy familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “humility” In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It well becomes a young man to be modest. —Titus Maccius Plautus More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. —Madam Guizot More about this quote Tags: truth knowledge humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: humility goodness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It well becomes a young man to be modest. —Titus Maccius Plautus More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. —Madam Guizot More about this quote Tags: truth knowledge humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: humility goodness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email