Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry View this quote
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher. George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul. George Edward Woodberry
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family. George Edward Woodberry
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization. George Edward Woodberry
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love. George Edward Woodberry
The sweetest roamer is a boy’s young heart. George Edward Woodberry
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind. George Edward Woodberry
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power. George Edward Woodberry
American poet and literary critic
May 12th, 1855 - January 2nd, 1930
