Top 36 Ablest Quotes
#1. Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.
Albert Schweitzer
#2. All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
James Russell Lowell
#3. [Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations ...
Stephen L. Richards
#4. Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#5. There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton
#6. The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.
Clarence Darrow
#7. The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.
Jean De La Bruyere
#8. The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.
John W. Gardner
#9. America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.
Lee Kuan Yew
#10. The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.
Augustus William Hare
#11. The ablest swordsman, Hendran wrote, the consummate tactician, the peerless general: All seem invulnerable until luck turns against them. Make no mistake - place a man in death's way enough times, and his luck will turn.
Brian Staveley
#12. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
#13. Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.
Lewis Howard Latimer
#14. The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
Bruce Barton
#15. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.
Charles Darwin
#16. Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
Daniel H. Hill
#17. It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
Edward Gibbon
#18. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.
Mary Parker Follett
#20. Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
Aristotle.
#21. The West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.
Ilana Mercer
#22. She felt ... new, just-made. She felt as if everything she had ever done out of weakness or fear had been undone, and all of her past washed clean.
Emma Bull
#23. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
G.K. Chesterton
#24. The past is past. And better it remain so.
Jenna Blum
#25. My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.
Pierre Berton
#27. For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.
Gautama Buddha
#28. The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.
Johnny Carson
#30. I battle demons everyday to save the souls of Guardians. Why can't I fight for Mine?
Ednah Walters
#31. I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
Maya Angelou
#32. I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
John Steinbeck
#33. Eamonn Carr was coming in with tea on a tray, and what looked like home-made biscuits. Paula took her drink gratefully, but saw that Guy just sipped his and put it down on a well-placed coaster.
Claire McGowan
#34. And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine - liver, intestines, the heart - fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.
Guillermo Del Toro
#35. There were others who would have called him a scammer, a swindler, a con, but he never thought of himself this way. No good charlatan ever did.
Victor LaValle
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