Surest Quotes

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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.