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List of Edith Hamilton Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 76 inspiring quotes by Edith Hamilton.

About Edith Hamilton

  • Born: August 12, 1867
  • Died: May 31, 1963
  • Occupation: Author
    • Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
    Jesus Jesus Christ Christ
    Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
    Age Said Mark
    We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. to be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
    Running Teaching Mad
    Moderately wise each one should be, not overwise, for a wise man's heart is seldom glad (norse wisdom)
    Wise Heart Men
    In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
    Religion Conservative Temper
    There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
    Play People Theater
    So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the atlantic to the pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.
    Children School Air
    ..,no love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"greek mythology of edith hamilton
    Greek No Trust Hamilton
    There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. no facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that bach's music is beautiful.
    Music Beautiful Failure
    ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. we are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. people like it. this argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
    Thinking People Literature
    A tendency to exaggeration was a roman trait.
    Tendencies Exaggeration Traits
    No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that bach's music is beautiful.
    Beautiful Effort Facts
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