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 Massey Copy Share Image
In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south! — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
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… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
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 Massey Copy Share Image
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools". — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
