John Lancaster Spalding: Trending quotes (page 4)

“To clothe truth in fitting words is to feel a satisfaction like that which comes of doing good deeds.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 23

Truth , Feeling , Clothes

“We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 30-31

Children , Sense

“The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 180

Education , Lovers

“When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 160

Love , Men

“Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 96

Love , Education , Thinking , Help

“Obedience is not servility. On the contrary the servile are never rightly obedient.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 76

“The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 27

Children , World

“The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 113

Idea

“Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 239

Education , Exercises

“A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 202

“We truly know only what we have taught ourselves.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 201

“No occupation is more tiresome or depressing than that of killing time. It is the cause of lifeweariness, the punishment the soul inflicts upon itself when reduced to passiveness and servitude.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 156

Soul , Time

“If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 156

Strong , Personality

“The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 15

Beauty , Star , Flowers , Happiness

“Philosophers and theologians, like the vulgar, prefer contradiction to enlightenment. They refute one another more gladly than they learn from one another, as though man lived by shunning error and not by loving truth. Accept their formulas and they sink back into their easy chairs and comfortably doze.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 171-172

Love , Truth , Error , Learning

“Love finds us young and keeps us so: immortal himself, he permits not age to enter the hearts where he reigns.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 39

Love , Age , Heart

“It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 19

Way

“To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 117

Love , Secret , Learning , Perfection

“Place before thyself the ideal of perfection, not that of happiness, for by doing what makes thee wiser and better, thou shalt find the peace and joy in which happiness consists.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 114

Peace , Joy , Perfection , Happiness

“True readers … are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 7

Life , Truth , Hope