Edith Hamilton Quotes
Most popular Edith Hamilton Quotes
![Love cannot live where there is no trust. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/61/35161A-love-cannot-live-where-there-is-no-trust-edith-hamilton.png)
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
![A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/36/34936A-a-peoples-literature-is-the-great-textbook-real-knowledge-them-edith-hamilton.png)
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them.
![To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/94/29994A-to-be-able-to-be-caught-up-into-world-thought-edith-hamilton.png)
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated.
![When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/65/30665A-when-the-mind-withdraws-into-itself-dispenses-with-facts-it-edith-hamilton.png)
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
![Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/23/36323A-myths-are-early-science-the-result-mens-first-trying-explain-edith-hamilton.png)
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
![Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/12/26412A-great-art-is-the-expression-of-solution-conflict-between-demands-edith-hamilton.png)
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
![The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/46/29246A-the-fullness-of-life-is-in-hazards-life-at-worst-edith-hamilton.png)
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
![A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/16/42216A-a-word-is-no-light-matter-words-have-with-truth-edith-hamilton.png)
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
![None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/13/41113A-none-but-a-poet-can-write-tragedy-tragedy-is-nothing-edith-hamilton.png)
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
![Civilization, a much abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights. It is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. - Edith Hamilton quote.](/img/q/02/28202A-civilization-a-much-abused-word-stands-high-matter-quite-apart-edith-hamilton.png)
Civilization, a much abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights. It is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling.