Surest Quotes

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.