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Quotes from The Idea of a University — John Henry Newman

1801–1890 England

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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.

The Idea of a University (1873)

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

The Idea of a University (1873)

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

The Idea of a University (1873)

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

The Idea of a University (1873)

Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

The Idea of a University (1873)

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

The Idea of a University (1873)

The past never returns; the course of events, old in its texture, is ever new in its colouring and fashion

The Idea of a University (1873)

We attain to heaven by using this world well, though it is to pass away; we perfect our nature, not by undoing it, but by adding to it what is more than nature, and directing it towards aims higher than its own.

The Idea of a University (1873)

Truth is the object of Knowledge of whatever kind; and when we inquire what is meant by Truth, I suppose it is right to answer that Truth means facts and their relations, which stand towards each other pretty much as subjects and predicates in logic.

The Idea of a University (1873)

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