Sydney Smith Quotes

Sydney Smith Quotes

Sydney Smith Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Sydney Smith:

"Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."

"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful."

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle to do nothing at all."

"You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave."

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

"Never try to reason"