Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
Anna Jameson quotes about
genius use talent
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
health principles sanitary
Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...
mean light ideas
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.
lying believe facts
You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.
law stronger opinion
Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
ties individuality brain
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.
language accuracy
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
education purpose cherish
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
poverty poor
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
christian stress animal
... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
echoes mind fame
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
forgiveness suffering made
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
love art philosophy
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.