John Lancaster Spalding: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 226

Life , Perfection

“How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 183-184

Learning

“What matter that the man stands for much I cannot love—the moment he touches the realms of truth he enters my world and is my friend.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 89

Love , Truth , World

“Each one fashions and bears his world with him, and that unless he himself become wise, strong and loving, no change in his circumstances can make him rich or free or happy.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 5

Love , World , Fashion , Strong

“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 274

Thinking

“To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 240

Love , Confidence , Understanding , Memory

“If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 164

Art , Thinking

“Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.”

John Lancaster Spalding

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

“Taste, of which the proverb says there should be no dispute, is precisely the subject which needs discussion.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 20

“The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 241

Love , Life , Truth , Literature

“The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 207

“What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 208

“The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 136

“To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 221

Men , Education , Fashion , Thinking

“The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 164

World , Suffering , Learning

“The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.”

John Lancaster Spalding

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

Motivation

“We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 21

Love , Men , Music , Heart

“Let not what thou canst not prevent, though it be the ruin of thy home or country, draw thee from thy proper work.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 98

Home , Drawing , Country

“When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 207

Sense , Falseness

“We do not find it hard to bear with ourselves, though we are full of faults. Why then may we not learn to be tolerant of others?”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 238

Learning