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Wise Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

May you find great value in these quotes by Robert M. Hutchins.

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

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Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi


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I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

 

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd

One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind

He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch


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