Facts about Edward Gibbon

Occup.	Historian
From	England
Born	April 27, 1737
Died	January 16, 1794
Aged	56 years

Summary

Edward Gibbon was a famous Historian from England, who lived between April 27, 1737 and January 16, 1794. He/she became 56 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience. Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Edward.

31 Famous quotes by Edward Gibbon

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous"

Edward Gibbon

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"

Edward Gibbon

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius"

Edward Gibbon

"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India"

Edward Gibbon

"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance"

Edward Gibbon

"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

"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language"

Edward Gibbon

"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"

Edward Gibbon

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect"

Edward Gibbon

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive"

Edward Gibbon

"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition"

Edward Gibbon

"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity"

Edward Gibbon

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event"

Edward Gibbon

"Style is the image of character"

Edward Gibbon

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself"

Edward Gibbon

"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

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities"

Edward Gibbon

"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events"

Edward Gibbon

"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular"

Edward Gibbon

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery"

Edward Gibbon

"I was never less alone than when by myself"

Edward Gibbon

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes"

Edward Gibbon

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused"

Edward Gibbon

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful"

Edward Gibbon

"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature"

Edward Gibbon

"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

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work"

Edward Gibbon

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being"

Edward Gibbon

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute"

Edward Gibbon

"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes"

Edward Gibbon

"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty"

Edward Gibbon