Famous Quotes / Edith Hamilton
16 Quotations by Edith Hamilton
- 1. A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show ...
- 2. Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love of beauty ...
- 3. Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
- 4. Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a ...
- 5. It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
- 6. It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to ...
- 7. Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi ...
- 8. None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio ...
- 9. So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied ...
- 10. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
- 11. Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
- 12. There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a ...
- 13. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
- 14. When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
- 15. When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free ...
- 16. When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.