Vincent Massey quotes
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“It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address on the occasion of the Centenary of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, April 17, 1952, 1959.
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“History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!”
-- Vincent MasseySource : Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.
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“In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!”
-- Vincent MasseySource : Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.
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“Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : Address to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, October 14, 1952.
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“Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of British Columbia, May 18, 1954, 1959.
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“The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Centenary Dinner of University College, Toronto, October 16, 1953, 1959.
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“The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, March 7, 1953, 1959.
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“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952, 1959.
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“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”
-- Vincent MasseySource : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
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