Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
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
Educate
Neglect
Important
Thing
More quotes by John Lancaster Spalding
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
John Lancaster Spalding
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
John Lancaster Spalding
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
John Lancaster Spalding
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
John Lancaster Spalding
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
John Lancaster Spalding
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
John Lancaster Spalding
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
John Lancaster Spalding
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
John Lancaster Spalding
Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
John Lancaster Spalding
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
John Lancaster Spalding
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
John Lancaster Spalding
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
John Lancaster Spalding
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
John Lancaster Spalding
