Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen KCBwas an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 November 1832
honesty men thinking
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
angel men laughing
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
believe men people
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
men walking-meditation play
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
believe men mountain-peaks
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.
confidence defense far fortunate runs
We've been fortunate so far that we've been able to get runs early. When you have the defense we do and Brittany on the mound, that's a lot of confidence for our kids.
close fortunate fun game games kinds played
This game was about as evenly played as you could get. These close games are the kinds that are fun to coach. We were fortunate to come out on top.
practice movement ends
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
ignorance names chance
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
falsehood
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
nature children environment
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
talking talkers audience
A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.
genius trouble capacity
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
names intellectual may
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.