Quote

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

Arthur Helps

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
Biographer
Historian
Writer
Sir Arthur Helps
Creative
Highly
Whole
Wrong
Efforts
Sometimes
Common
Pass
Mind
Upon
Drama
People
Fact
Minds
Dramas
Facts
Genius
Imaginative
Place
Effort
Insult
Passion
Injury
Become

More quotes by Arthur Helps

Image
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Arthur Helps
Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
Arthur Helps
Image
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps
Image
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Arthur Helps
Image
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps
Image
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
Arthur Helps
Image
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Arthur Helps
Image
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
Image
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
Arthur Helps
Image
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps
Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
Arthur Helps
Image
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
Arthur Helps
Image
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
Arthur Helps
Image
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps
Image
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arthur Helps
Image
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
Arthur Helps
Image
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
Arthur Helps
Image
They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
Arthur Helps
Image
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
Arthur Helps