Quote #20

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from John Henry Cardinal Newman

  1. 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…
  2. To live is to change, and to perfect life is to have changed often.
  3. Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
  4. To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant.
  5. A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.
  6. The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
  7. Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
  8. 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…

All John Henry Cardinal Newman quotes