The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Wisdom, Experience, Quotations, Future, The Future
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Literature
The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated.
—Isaac D’Israeli
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places; and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning he eye of the mind inwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Meditation
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Thinking, Books, Reading
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Romance
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Solitude
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for—has been flown to.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Solitude
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Criticism
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Enthusiasm, Genius, Passion
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Genius, Enthusiasm
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Genius
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
—Isaac D’Israeli
Topics: Excellence
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