Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it. — George Edward Woodberry Education Copy Share Image
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. — George Edward Woodberry Faith Copy Share Image
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. — George Edward Woodberry Contentment Copy Share Image
Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they… — George Edward Woodberry Language Copy Share Image
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it,… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry Age Copy Share Image
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and… — George Edward Woodberry Being faithful Copy Share Image
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late… — George Edward Woodberry Boss Copy Share Image
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Age Copy Share Image
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm… — George Edward Woodberry Action Copy Share Image
You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a… — George Edward Woodberry Bronze Copy Share Image
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance?… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of… — George Edward Woodberry Agriculture Copy Share Image
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to… — George Edward Woodberry Book Copy Share Image
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all… — George Edward Woodberry Astronomy Copy Share Image
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a… — George Edward Woodberry Art Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. — George Edward Woodberry Communication Copy Share Image
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions… — George Edward Woodberry Aliens Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry Eulogy Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Agitation Copy Share Image
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes,… — George Edward Woodberry Anti slavery Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Abstract Copy Share Image
If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth,… — George Edward Woodberry Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the… — George Edward Woodberry Children Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Actors Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Books Copy Share Image
