James A. Froude Quotes

“We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.”

“The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.”

“Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.”

“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”

“The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.”

“No person is ever good for much, that hasnt been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.”

“The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.”

“To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.”

“A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.”

“Human improvement is from within outward.”

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

Quotes by James A. Froude