William Macneile Dixon Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
1866 – January, 31, 1946.

William Macneile Dixon was a British author and academic. Dixon was born in India, the only son of the Reverend William Dixon and attended Methodist College Belfast.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon
- Heart
- Understand
- Living
Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

William Macneile Dixon

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

William Macneile Dixon
- Miracle
- Birth
- Prospect
Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

William Macneile Dixon
- Desires
- Attract
- Fillings
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

William Macneile Dixon
- Present
- Facts
- Confusion
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

William Macneile Dixon
- Life
- Roots
- Infinite
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

William Macneile Dixon
- Mankind
- Vice
- Hates
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

William Macneile Dixon
- Star
- Born
- Astonishment

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

William Macneile Dixon
- Truth
- Angel
- Bread
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

William Macneile Dixon
- Live
- Die
- Ideas