Charles William Eliot Quotes

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

  Charles William Eliot

  Reading, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, School, Desire

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

  Charles William Eliot

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

  Charles William Eliot

  Summer, School, Years

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• The Library is the heart of the University.

  Charles William Eliot

  Heart, Library, University

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• One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Book, Class

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• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Expansion

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• There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

  Charles William Eliot

  Leadership, Successful, Attention

  Charles William Eliot (1924). “Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect”, p.91, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

  Charles William Eliot

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Charles William Eliot (1909). “Education for Efficiency, and The New Definition of the Cultivated Man”

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• Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Honor, World

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• Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

  Charles William Eliot

  Lonely, And Love, Messengers

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• Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

  Charles William Eliot

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

  Charles William Eliot

  Helping Others, Men, Ties Of Love

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

  Charles William Eliot

  Work, College, World

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

  Charles William Eliot

  Progress, World, Public Opinion

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• Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

  Charles William Eliot

  Inspirational, Action, Realms

  Charles William Eliot, Harvard University (1969). “A turning point in higher education: the inaugural address of Charles William Eliot as president of Harvard College, October 19, 1869”

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• Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

  Charles William Eliot

  Adversity, History, Delight

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• All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

  Charles William Eliot

  Business, Judgement, Belief

  "American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".

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• When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

  Charles William Eliot

  Work, Heart, Progress

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• In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

  Charles William Eliot

  Children, Power, Fields

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs”

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Mother, Gentleman

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• Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

  Charles William Eliot

  Evil, Boredom, Overcoming

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

  Charles William Eliot

  Hero, Industry

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