"When faith is supported by facts or by……" — Edith Hamilton
"When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith."
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43 Quotes by Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton has 43 quotes on this site.
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to…
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never…
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the…
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables…
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet,…
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace,…
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality…
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
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It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was…
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More Ceases Quotes
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
— A. S. Byatt
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
— Les Claypool
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates…
— B R Ambedkar
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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our…
— Corazon Aquino
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control…
— Unknown Author
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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions…
— Francois Fenelon
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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