A Dictionary Of Thoughts Quotes

“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts

“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
― Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary Of Thoughts