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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
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Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
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If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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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.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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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.
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