Isaiah Bowman quotes

Isaiah Bowman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”
-- Isaiah Bowman

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“The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.”
“Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”
“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

Source : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”
“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.”
“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”
“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

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