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Top 25 Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes (2025 Update)

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.”

1. “Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.”

2. “The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.”

3. “The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”

4. “The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”

5. “In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.”

6. “Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.”

7. “As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.”

8. “We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?”

9. “Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.”

10. “Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.”

11. “The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.”

12. “Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.”

13. “Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.”

14. “There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.”

15. “Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.”

16. “I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.”

17. “Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.”

18. “Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.”

19. “Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.”

20. “The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.”

21. “Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.”

22. “People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.”

23. “You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.”

24. “All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quote: “Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.”

25. “Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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