George Fownes quotes

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
-- George Fownes

#Knowledge #Civilization #Iron

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and narrow path-and hold tight until we reach our ultimate goal of eternal life with our Heavenly Father. Nephi promises that those who hold fast to the iron rod"would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction"