Leslie Stephen Quotes

"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers."
- Leslie Stephen
(Related: Men, Intellect, Letters, Man, Play, Recreation, Walking)

"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."
- Leslie Stephen
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)

"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."
- Leslie Stephen
(Related: Work, Nothing, Study)

"If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt."
- Leslie Stephen
(Related: God, People, Atheism, Doubt, Mind, State, Theology, Words)

"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service."
- Leslie Stephen
(Related: Man, Public, Service)