Alive Quote by Benjamin Haydon

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

— Benjamin Haydon

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

— Benjamin Haydon

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite…

— Benjamin Haydon

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

— Benjamin Haydon

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man…

— Benjamin Haydon

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

— Benjamin Haydon

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage…

— Benjamin Haydon

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they…

— Benjamin Haydon

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing…

— Benjamin Haydon

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

— Benjamin Haydon

Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the…

— Benjamin Haydon

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without…

— Benjamin Haydon