Quote

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Arthur Helps

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
Biographer
Historian
Writer
Sir Arthur Helps
Longest
Frequently
Understood
Least
Known

More quotes by Arthur Helps

Image
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps
Image
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
Arthur Helps
Image
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
Arthur Helps
Image
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
Arthur Helps
Image
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Arthur Helps
Image
It takes a great man to make a great listener
Arthur Helps
Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
Arthur Helps
Image
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Arthur Helps
Image
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
Arthur Helps
Image
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps
Image
It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
Arthur Helps
Image
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
Arthur Helps
Image
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
Arthur Helps
Image
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps
Image
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Arthur Helps
Image
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
Arthur Helps
Image
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
Image
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
Arthur Helps
Image
The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
Arthur Helps
Image
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps