George Henry Lewes Quotes

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

George Henry Lewes

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• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Think
  • Said
  • Independence

• I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Want
  • Will
  • Independence

• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Government
  • Independence

• Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • May
  • Problems

• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Independence
  • Brand

• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • Decision

• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Sincerity

• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Independence

• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hope
  • Present
  • Teacher

• The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Value
  • Deep

• To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Desire
  • Financial
  • Wealth

• Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Opinion

• Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Country
  • Initiative
  • Originality

• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  

  John Tillotson
  • World
  • Action
  • Trouble

• What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Name
  • Originality

• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Explanation
  • Adventures
  • Dreadful Time

• Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Blessing
  • Boredom
  • Philanthropic

• There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

  

  Confucius
  • Strong
  • Guards
  • Covetousness

• Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

  

  George Henry Lewes
  • Independence
  • Sincerity
  • Originality