Norman Douglas Quotes (20 Quotes)
- The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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- People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
(Norman Douglas)
- Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
(Norman Douglas)
- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
(Norman Douglas)
- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
(Norman Douglas)
- Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
(Norman Douglas)
- He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
(Norman Douglas)
- The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
(Norman Douglas)
- They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
(Norman Douglas)
- You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
(Norman Douglas)
- You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
(Norman Douglas)
- To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
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- To know oneself is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
(Norman Douglas)
- A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
(Norman Douglas)
- Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
(Norman Douglas)
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