A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman

Ability is sexless.
John Henry Newman

Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Newman

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
John Henry Newman

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
John Henry Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
John Henry Newman

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
John Henry Newman

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
John Henry Newman