Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real alle… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" "
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English

Collect this quote

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: S. T. Coleridge

All quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

William Wordsworth Lord Byron John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Tennyson

Additional quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of since… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Go Premium