The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. - Leslie Stephen
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
- Leslie Stephen
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. - Leslie Stephen
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Chance is a name for our ignorance. - Leslie Stephen
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own - Leslie Stephen
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. - Leslie Stephen
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. - Leslie Stephen
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. - Leslie Stephen
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believ… - Leslie Stephen
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believ…
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. - Leslie Stephen
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.
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