All George Edward Woodberry Quotes
- Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. Always Begin
- The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart. Boy
- To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. Contentment
- The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. Faith
- What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of… All
- What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls… Bond
- One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… Ago
- A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an… Age
- My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may… Always One
- I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. Believe
- Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its… All
- Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. Agitation
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. Defeat
- A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and… Alien
- Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. Aesthetic
- I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. Deal
- Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? Acknowledged
- It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of… Arriving
- Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. Been
- The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. Baptized
- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because… Bad
- The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,… Agriculture
- Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know… Argue
- You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or… Bronze
- A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the… Bonds