Quote

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Elbert Hubbard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
Arithmetic
Emotions
Logic
Emotion
Reason

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
Victory a matter of staying power.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The goal of evolution is self - conquest
Elbert Hubbard
Image
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I believe the Universe is planned for good.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard