Quote

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Samuel Butler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
Farmer
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
Writer
Notts
Cellarius
Motivational
Learn

More quotes by Samuel Butler

Image
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
Samuel Butler
Image
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler
Image
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
Image
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
Image
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
Image
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
Samuel Butler
Image
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
Samuel Butler
Image
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler
Image
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
Image
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler
Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Image
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
Samuel Butler
Image
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler
Image
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
Samuel Butler
Image
Let man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler
Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
Samuel Butler
Image
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
Samuel Butler
Image
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler
Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler
Image
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler