James Anthony Froude Quotes

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

Death, Wild, Fellow

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
James Anthony Froude

Time, Best, Mistakes

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
James Anthony Froude

Freedom, Impossible, Morality

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
James Anthony Froude

Person, Cannot, Idea

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
James Anthony Froude

Age, True, Children

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
James Anthony Froude

Life, Learn, Limits

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James Anthony Froude

Experience, Mistakes, Cost

Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James Anthony Froude

Fear, Parent, Cruelty

Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude

Human, Within, Outward

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
James Anthony Froude

Positive, Sacrifice, Law

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

Good, Person, Between

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Anthony Froude

Doubt, Philosophy, Goes

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

Science, Reason, Belief

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
James Anthony Froude

Strength, Long, Lie

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
James Anthony Froude

Less, Virtue, Aware

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
James Anthony Froude

Life, Society, Human

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude

Self, Greatness, Neglect

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
James Anthony Froude

Against, Duty, Guard

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
James Anthony Froude

Real, Belief, Test

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

Religion, Nature, Person

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
James Anthony Froude

Alone, Leave, Enter

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude

Yourself, Character, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Historian

Born: April 23, 1818

Died: October 20, 1894

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