James A. Froude Quotes

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
-James A. Froude in Character quotes.

"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."
-James A. Froude in Experience quotes.

"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible."
-James A. Froude

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

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

"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
-James A. Froude

"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."
-James A. Froude

"The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith."
-James A. Froude

"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."
-James A. Froude

"Human improvement is from within outward."
-James A. Froude