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Edward Gibbon - From the Ability category:
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Aging category:
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Books category:
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Books category:
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Discipline category:
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Experience category:
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Fame category:
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Freedom category:
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom... when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Hope category:
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Humanity category:
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Indolence category:
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Language category:
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Loneliness category:
I was never less alone than while by myself. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Mirrors category:
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Money category:
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Politics category:
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Possessions category:
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Vol. 1...
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Possibilities category:
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Progress category:
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Shock category:
- Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where...
'bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.' (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Solitude category:
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Style category:
Style is the image of character. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Teaching category:
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Winning category:
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Work category:
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Work category:
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. (Edward Gibbon)
Edward Gibbon - From the Writing category:
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. (Edward Gibbon)
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