Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Quotes
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Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.
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The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
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A difficulty for every solution.
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.
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An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
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Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
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Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.
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It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
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The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
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A library is thought in cold storage.
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The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.
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Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
- Born: November 6, 1870
- Died: February 2, 1963
- Occupation: British Politician