Top 33 Arthur Balfour Quotes

#1. Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

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#2. Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

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#3. I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

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#4. The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

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#5. The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

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#6. Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

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#7. He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

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#8. I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

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#9. Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

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#10. I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

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#11. Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

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#12. I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

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#13. I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

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#14. Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

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#15. No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

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#16. The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

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#17. I never forgive, but I always forget.

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#18. Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

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#19. I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

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#20. Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

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#21. His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

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#22. Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.

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#23. Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

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#24. I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

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#25. There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

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#26. Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

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#27. It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

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#28. Enthusiasm moves the world.

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#29. He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

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#30. It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

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#31. Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

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#32. Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

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#33. Ask with urgency and passion.

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