Leslie Stephen Quotes

Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Leslie Stephen

Ignorance, Chance, Name

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen

Service, Public, Says

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Leslie Stephen

Work, Best, Nothing

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Leslie Stephen

Truth, Cannot, Falsehood

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Leslie Stephen

God, Mind, Doubt

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Leslie Stephen

Great, Men, Play

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: November 28, 1832

Died: February 22, 1904

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