80 Quotes by Anna Jameson

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

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.

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.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

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.

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.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.