Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, critic and philosopher, 1772-1834
14 quotes.
Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
- Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
- Friends should be weighed, not told.
- Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
- Friendship is a sheltering tree.
- He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity.
- I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
- If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast.
- If you wish to be assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
- Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour.
- The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere, lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralysed.
- To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
- To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action.