Henry S. Haskins: Trending quotes (page 2)

“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92

Learning

“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74

Learning

“A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 115

Love , Distant

“Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100

Fish , Time

“If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 117

Imagination

“Make a party over your negative thoughts, assuring them that they are the safest, the most cautious, company you have ever kept. At first they will swallow your flattery, but then suddenly, stricken with shame, and knowing themselves for the impostors they are, out and off they will go.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 77

“Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134

“Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 118

Imagination

“When you think of the silly things people have said to you which have stopped you from saying the same silly things, you simply can’t do justice to your gratitude.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 107

People , Justice , Thinking , Gratitude

“He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 111

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 131

For Team , Deep , Peaceful , Powerful

“We fall short when we ascribe all the modes of happiness to walking in paths of rectitude. There are joys which only tramps and thieves know.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 116

Joy , Happiness

“Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 46

Hope

“Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 30

Personality

“Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 132

“It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with: “What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?””

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 52

Nature , Thinking

“There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 38

“If you obtain provision for yourself of spiritual abundance, don’t throw the surplus at people’s heads; feed it back into your own industry as capital for the production of more abundance.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 37

People

“The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80

Way , Victory

“When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 81

Children