Knows Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton