150 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.