All John Henry Newman Quotes
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
John Henry Newman
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
John Henry Newman
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
John Henry Newman
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
John Henry Newman
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman
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