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Top 25 Arthur Balfour Quotes (2025 Update)

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”

1. “Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Enthusiasm moves the world.”

2. “Enthusiasm moves the world.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “I’d rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference.”

3. “I’d rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Why can’t the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?”

4. “Why can’t the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.”

5. “Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Ask with urgency and passion.”

6. “Ask with urgency and passion.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”

7. “He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

8. “The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.”

9. “It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.”

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Arthur Balfour Quote: “There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.”

10. “There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “I never forgive, but I always forget.”

11. “I never forgive, but I always forget.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.”

12. “I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.”

13. “Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.”

14. “I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.”

15. “No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “His Majesty’s Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.”

16. “His Majesty’s Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.”

17. “I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Advice would be more acceptable if it didn’t always conflict with our plans.”

18. “Advice would be more acceptable if it didn’t always conflict with our plans.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Herbert Asquith’s clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.”

19. “Herbert Asquith’s clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.”

20. “Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.”

21. “Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle’s back, and find them both ingenious.”

22. “Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle’s back, and find them both ingenious.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.”

23. “The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.”

24. “I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.”

— Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour Quote: “We have not merely stumbled on truth in spite of error and illusion, which is odd, but because of error and illusion, which is even odder.”

25. “We have not merely stumbled on truth in spite of error and illusion, which is odd, but because of error and illusion, which is even odder.”

— Arthur Balfour

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