Quote #16

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

More from John Henry Cardinal Newman

  1. The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
  2. To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant.
  3. Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
  4. Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
  5. There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years o…
  6. There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Divi…
  7. Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.
  8. Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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