John Henry Newman Quotes
"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Act)
"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."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Change, Facts, Wishing)
"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Men, Will)
"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Men, Ideas, Nothing, Words)
"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Fault, Nothing)
"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Difficulties, Doubt)
"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Love, Men, Exercise, Friends)
"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."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: People, Living, Name)
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Virtue, Gain, Pleasure, Religious, Reward, Will)
"We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe."
- John Henry Newman
"We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything."
- John Henry Newman
"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Resentment)
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Corruption, Evil, Excess)
"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."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: War, Laws, May)
"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Age, Religion, Dream, Idea, Sentiment)
"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Thoughts, Conscience, Judgment)
"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Wisdom, Memory)
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Fault, Man, Nothing)
"Calculation never made a hero."
- John Henry Newman
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Life, Fear, Beginning, End)
"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Literature, Memory, Mind)
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Life, Growth)
"If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards."
- John Henry Newman
"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Being, Content)
"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."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Love, Genius, Rules, World)
"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Gentleman, Pain)
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Gentleman, Pain)
"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Men)
"Ability is sexless."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Ability)