Theodore Schultz quotes

Theodore Schultz quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.”
-- Theodore Schultz

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”
“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Concept of Freedom"), 1990.
“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.”
“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”
“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

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