Sir John Lubbock Famous Quotes
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."
"When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air."
Sir John Lubbock Quotations
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Johannes Tillich
"Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea."
Rachel Carson
"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some."
Herbert Rappaport
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Frank H Crane
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
Martin Luther King Jr
"You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are."
James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr
"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Never, Never, Never Say NEVER"
Gary Thadani
"Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines."
Richard Buckminster Fuller
I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone