Quotes By James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.