The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli
Some Similar Quotes
  1. As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him. - Dada Bhagwan

  2. On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done). - Dada Bhagwan

  3. You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent ‘heartily’ for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don’t repent ‘heartily’, do they? They just say superficially that ‘it was my fault’! - Dada Bhagwan

  4. The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it? - Dada Bhagwan

  5. One cannot see one’s own mistakes in matters where his interest lies. - Dada Bhagwan

More Quotes By Isaac D'Israeli
  1. There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  2. The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  3. Beware of the man of one book.

  4. The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  5. The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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