Quotes by Charles William Eliot - Page 1

The Library is the heart of the University.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Heart
Library
University
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The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Hero
Industry
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Book
Library
Reading
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The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Men
Efficient
He Man
Thinking
Himself
Thinks
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
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Inspirational
Action
Realms
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Education
Book
Class
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Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
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Glasses
Bright
Expect
Wear
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
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Business
Belief
Judgement
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Beliefs
Certainties
Judgements
Probabilities
Proceeds
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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 / Poet
Happiness
Joy
Laughter
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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 / Poet
Work
College
World
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
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Achieve
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There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
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Leadership
Attention
Successful
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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
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Progress
Public Opinion
World
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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 / Poet
Education
Desire
School
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Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
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Men
Philosophy
Real
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Friends
Constant
Patient
Wisest
Most
Accessible
Teachers
Books
Counselors
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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 / Poet
And Love
Lonely
Messengers
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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 / Poet
Friendship
Happiness
Attitude
Teacher
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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.
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History
Adversity
Delight
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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.
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School
Summer
Years
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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 / Poet
Education
Gentleman
Mother
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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 / Poet
Power
Children
Fields
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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 / Poet
Education
Honor
World
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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 / Poet
Boredom
Evil
Overcoming
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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 / Poet
Work
Heart
Progress
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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.
Charles William Eliot / Poet
Expansion
Spiritual
Thinking
Unselfish
Useful
Choking
Commandment
Develop
Final
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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.
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Men
Helping Others
Ties Of Love
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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 / Poet
Opportunity
Reading
Thinking
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