Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
John Lancaster Spalding
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
Author
Biographer
Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
Mirrors
Image
Look
Looks
World
Mirror
More quotes by John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
John Lancaster Spalding
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
John Lancaster Spalding
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
John Lancaster Spalding
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
John Lancaster Spalding
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
John Lancaster Spalding
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
John Lancaster Spalding
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
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
Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
John Lancaster Spalding
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
John Lancaster Spalding
Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
John Lancaster Spalding
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
John Lancaster Spalding
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
John Lancaster Spalding
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
John Lancaster Spalding
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
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
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
John Lancaster Spalding
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
John Lancaster Spalding