Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes Short Quotes
25 Sourced Quotes
View all George Henry Lewes Quotes
Source
Report...
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
To note a deficiency is one thing, another to remedy that deficiency.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
The pen, in our age, weighs heavier in the social scale than the sword of a Norman Baron.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Life everywhere! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
George Henry Lewes
Source
Report...
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
Quote of the day
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
George Henry Lewes
Creative Commons
Born:
April 18, 1817
Died:
November 30, 1878
(aged 61)
George Henry Lewes Quotes
George Henry Lewes Short Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes