Wide Quotes by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi