James Truslow Adams Inspirational Quotes (6)

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.