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

Froude, James A. on Enthusiasm
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."

Froude, James A. on Greatness
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on History and Historians
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"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."

Froude, James A. on Humankind
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Humankind
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

"Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them."

Froude, James A. on Law and Lawyers
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Ability
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Loneliness
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Morality
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Philosophers and Philosophy
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."

Froude, James A. on Reason
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Sacrifice
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Science and Scientists
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Strength
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Belief
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 0 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Character
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Human improvement is from within outward."

Froude, James A. on Character
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

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

Froude, James A. on Will and Will Power
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>