I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.”
“It is better to have an enemy who will fight you in an open field then a lover who will kill you in your sleep.”
Source: The Rose Society
“It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.”
“It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”
“It is better to have done something than to have been someone.”
“It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”
“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
Source: Teaching the gifted, challenging the average
“It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“It is better to have had your wish than to have wish you had.”
“It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.”
“It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.”
“It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.”
Source: Last of the Breed
“It is better to have no ideas than false ones.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.”
“It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.”
“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
“It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.”
“It is better to have wings then hornes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is better to heal than harm.”
“It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.”
“It is better to hope than be un-happy.”
“It is better to hope than despair.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is better to hope than to mope!”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“It is better to hug than shake hands.”
“It is better to ignore your friends than to listen to your enemies.”
“It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.”
“it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.”
“It is better to invert reality than to copy it.”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.”
“it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“It is better to know how love feels, how to give yourself to someone, how to form intimacy and create memories, than to travel through a cold life alone.”
Source: Magical Midlife Awakening
“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
“It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'”
“It is better to laugh a little than to make a tragedy of every misfortune. The Gita teaches: “He who feels neither rejoicing nor loathing toward the glad nor the sad (aspects of phenomenal life), who is free from grief and cravings, who has banished the relative consciousness of good and evil, and who is intently devout—he is dear to Me.” To have an optimistic disposition and try to smile is constructive and worthwhile; for whenever you express divine qualities, such as courage and joy, you are being born again; your consciousness is being made new by the manifestation of your true soul nature.”
Source: Man's Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays - Volume 1 (Self-Realization Fellowship)
“It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
“It is better to laugh than cry.”
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
“It is better to Leap than to Sleep”
“It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“It is better to learn late than never.”
“It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.”
“It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.”
“It is better to let go of the comment than risk the relationship.”
Source: Quantraz
“It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.”
Source: The Jungle Book