Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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
Fire
Follows
Truth
Frightened
Human
Generous
Humans
Pursuit
Mind
Brave
Men
Save
Pestilence
Love
Danger
Toil
Life
Goes
Flood
More quotes by John Lancaster Spalding
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
John Lancaster Spalding
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
John Lancaster Spalding
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
John Lancaster Spalding
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
John Lancaster Spalding
To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.
John Lancaster Spalding
Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
John Lancaster Spalding
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
John Lancaster Spalding
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
John Lancaster Spalding
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
John Lancaster Spalding
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
John Lancaster Spalding
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests the superior, by ideas.
John Lancaster Spalding
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
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
Faith, like love, unites opinion, like hate, separates.
John Lancaster Spalding
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
John Lancaster Spalding
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
John Lancaster Spalding
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
John Lancaster Spalding
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
John Lancaster Spalding
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
John Lancaster Spalding
