Famous Quotes / James A. Froude
21 Quotations by James A. Froude
- 1. A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
- 2. As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- 3. Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- 4. Human improvement is from within outward.
- 5. In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
- 6. Mistakes are often the best teachers.
- 7. Mistakes are often the best teachers.
- 8. No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages tw ...
- 9. Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
- 10. Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
- 11. Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa ...
- 12. Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
- 13. The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
- 14. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.
- 15. The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
- 16. The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
- 17. The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believe about the world ...
- 18. To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
- 19. We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
- 20. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c ...