Charles William Eliot quotes
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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 EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
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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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“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.”
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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 EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs”
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.”
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“The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.”
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“Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.”
-- Charles William EliotSource : Charles William Eliot, Harvard University (1969). “A turning point in higher education: the inaugural address of Charles William Eliot as president of Harvard College, October 19, 1869”
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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.”
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“The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.”
-- Charles William EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1909). “Education for Efficiency, and The New Definition of the Cultivated Man”
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“There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.”
-- Charles William EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1924). “Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect”, p.91, Univ of Massachusetts Press
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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 EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
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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.”
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“The Library is the heart of the University.”
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“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”
-- Charles William EliotSource : "American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".
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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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“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.”
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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.”
-- Charles William EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
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“The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.”
-- Charles William EliotSource : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
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“The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.”
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“One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.”
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