Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
Too often we forget that genius. . . depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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