A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
James Anthony Froude
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
James Anthony Froude
Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
James Anthony Froude
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James Anthony Froude
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
James Anthony Froude
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Anthony Froude
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
James Anthony Froude
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
James Anthony Froude
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
James Anthony Froude
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
James Anthony Froude
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
James Anthony Froude
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
James Anthony Froude
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
James Anthony Froude
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
James Anthony Froude
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude
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Type:
Historian
Date of Birth:
1818-04-23
Year of Death:
1894
Nationality:
English |
