Edith Hamilton
Writer
1867-08-12
Quotes by Edith Hamilton
-
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
Read quote -
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
Read quote -
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Read quote -
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
Read quote -
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought— that is to be educ
Read quote -
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
Read quote -
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Read quote -
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought— that is to be educ
Read quote -
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
Read quote -
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
Read quote -
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
Read quote -
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
Read quote -
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Read quote -
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Read quote -
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Read quote -
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Read quote -
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Read quote -
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Read quote -
It was her [Cassandras] fate always to know the disaster that was coming and be unable to avert it.
Read quote -
One unfortunate maiden after another beloved of the gods had had to kill her child secretly or be killed herself. The best such a one could expect was exile, and many women thought that worse than death.
Read quote