John Henry Newman Quotes

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Ability is sexless.

Calculation never made a hero.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.