Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The insolence of office. Ham., iii. 1.

The inspiration of the Almighty giveth man understanding. Bible.

The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. Kossuth.

The instruction merely clever men can give us is like baked bread, savoury and satisfying for a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground. Goethe.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them. Bible.

The intellect has only one failing: it has no conscience. Lowell.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it 5 admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Hare.

The intellectual power, through words and things / Went sounding on a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. Emerson.

The intolerant man is the real pedant. Jean Paul.