George Henry Lewes Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
Pliny ... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.