Edith Hamilton Quotes

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton

Thought, Able, Educated

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton

Poetry, Pain, Nothing

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton

Great, Knowledge, Real

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton

Faith, Belief, Active

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton

Great, Art, Between

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Edith Hamilton

Truth, Mind, Together

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Edith Hamilton

Life, Fullness, Hazards

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton

Minds, Leave, Walk

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton

Nature, Human, Facts

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton

Freedom, Free, Again

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton

Mind, Makes, Chaos

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 12, 1867

Died: May 31, 1963

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