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Aphorisms and Reflections QUOTES

Aphorisms and Reflections QUOTES

1 " If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting? "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

2 " We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

3 " They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

4 " When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

5 " The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

6 " As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

7 " There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

8 " As they are the bravest who require no witnesses to their deeds of daring, so they are the best who do right without thinking whether or not it shall be known. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

9 " A taste for the best books, as a taste for whatever is best, is acquired; and it can be acquired only by long study and practice. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

10 " Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

11 " The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

12 " 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 , Aphorisms and Reflections

13 " They who truly know have had to unlearn hardly less than they have had to learn. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections

14 " 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 , Aphorisms and Reflections

15 " The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise. "

― John Lancaster Spalding , Aphorisms and Reflections