KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Aldous Huxley Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Showing 91-100 of 105 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Actually Among Art Because Feel Feels Finest Know Like Little Little While Make Nobly Only Other Possible Precious Reasons Think Us While Works

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Allow Experience History Learn Men Metaphysical Only Others Passions Prejudices Recorded Them

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Genuinely Modern Pleasure Provides Speed

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Against Any Before Come Divided Itself Knowledge Must Thought

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Achieve Believe Generally Right Something Those Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Always Bottom Influence More Preachers Readers Themselves Write Writers

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Consistent History Revolutionary Sade

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Defined Doubt Fanatic Man Psychological Secret Terms Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Country Dignity Held Importance Increase Inverse Office Official Ratio Tends Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Always Charmed Disillusioned Fathers Rebellious Sons Which Wish

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 26th, 1894

Died: November 22nd, 1963

Links

Find Aldous Huxley on Amazon

Related Authors

Augusto Roa Bastos
Mark Billingham
Dorothy Dunnett
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Rumer Godden
Alistair Maclean
Andrew O'Hagan
Boris Pasternak
Arundhati Roy
Ivan Turgenev

Popular Authors

Saint Teresa Of Avila Francis Bacon Marie Curie Andrew Jackson Immanuel Kant John Lennon Charles R. Swindoll Oprah Winfrey

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Courage Food History Intelligence Men Moving On Music Teacher