John Lancaster Spalding Quotes - Page 6

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• The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Interesting, Accomplish, Subjects

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• 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

  Prejudice, Accepting, Being True

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Color, Space, Mind

  "Means and Ends of Education" by John Lancaster Spalding, (Ch. 1), 1895.

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• It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Errors, Causes, Common

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Flow, Form

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Reform, World, Thyself

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Dull, Failing, Vain

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  And Love, Purpose, Compulsion

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

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  Littles, Given, Chiefs

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  School, Caring, Knowing

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ignorance, Innocence, Virtue

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Book, Writing, Needs

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Wish

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

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  Animal, Giving, Dominion

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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