Culture Quotes by Edith Hamilton

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

— Edith Hamilton

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

— Edith Hamilton

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

— Edith Hamilton

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Edith Hamilton

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

— Edith Hamilton

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…

— Edith Hamilton

“He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. ”

— Edith Hamilton

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know…

— Edith Hamilton

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming…

— Edith Hamilton

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

— Edith Hamilton